Similar to a giraffe reaching upward for leaves on a tall tree, causing carbon nanotubes to stretch for food as they grow may result in a long-sought revolution.
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Boris Yakobson, a materials theorist at Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering, and his colleagues believe that altering the contour of a layer of 2D material, and hence the interactions between its atoms may be easier than previously imagined.
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