Report Detail Back to Reports   Automotive Applications for Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes        November 2002      This report is free to download.     Click here to start the download ( 483 Kb )     The beginning of the story has been told many times. In 1985, a confluence of events led to an unexpected and unplanned experiment with a new kind of microscope resulting in the discovery of a new molecule made purely of carbon – the very element chemists felt there was nothing more to learn about. Buckyballs – sixty carbon atoms arranged in a soccer ball shape – had been discovered and the chemical world, not to mention the physical and material worlds, would never be the same…...  Back to Reports Copyright 1999-2010 MIA. All Rights Reserved. Terms, Privacy Policy, Site Map