Thin solid films roll up into nanotubes

Oliver G. Schmidt () and Karl Eberl
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Oliver G. Schmidt: Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung
Karl Eberl: Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung

Nature, 2001, vol. 410, issue 6825, 168-168

Abstract: Abstract The rigorous size miniaturization of nanotechnology is continually generating new applications and new physical effects. We show here that nanotubes can be formed from thin solid films of almost any material at almost any position, once these films are released from their substrate. This exceptional design flexibility has useful implications, including for fluid transportation and capillarity on the nanometre scale, as well as offering the opportunity to extend fundamental investigations to a new diversity of materials, material systems and geometries.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1038/35065525

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