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Fabrication, Densification, and Replica Molding of 3D Carbon Nanotube Microstructures
Published on: July 2, 2012
Controlling reversible elastic deformation of carbon nanotube rings
Liyong Chen1, Hong Wang, Jun Xu
1Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|June 2, 2011
Abstract:
We show that bundles of carbon nanotubes can be coiled into ring structures by controlling the contraction of their polymer shells. With the robust carbon nanotubes, we demonstrate their reversible transformation between circular and compressed rings in a colloid.

