Industry sizes up nanotubes

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Abstract
The numerous extraordinary properties of carbon nanotubes are now well known – as the other articles in this special issue emphasize – and it is clear that nanotubes differ from ordinary molecules and solids in many respects. In fact, nanotubes have an ambiguous identity: they have reasonably well defined structures – albeit a large variety of them – like molecules, but their relatively large length and width means that they also resemble solids. Indeed, nanotubes can be extended to macroscopic lengths and Widths to ultimately merge With bulk graphite, which has a familiar layered structure.

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