Carbon nanotubes. Computer artwork of carbon nanotubes, also known as buckytubes, showing the hexagonal carbon structure. These are a type of fulleren

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Carbon nanotubes. Computer artwork of carbon nanotubes, also known as buckytubes, showing the hexagonal carbon structure. These are a type of fullerene, a structural type (allotrope) of carbon. Fullerenes, which were first discovered in 1985, can be used as catalysts, lubricants and superconductors.

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