
2. State of the art
2.1 Structure and properties of carbon nanotubes
CNTs were discovered by chance in 1991 by a Japanese researcher in the synthetic by-products of fullerenes, which are cage structures consisting of sixty carbon atoms and composed of hexagonal and pentagonal facets . Although microscopy images of CNT-like structures had previously been published ...
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BIANCO (A.), PANTAROTTO (D.), KOSTARELOS (K.), PRATO (M.). – Non-covalent complexes comprising carbon nanotubes. US patent n° 7858648 B2.
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