"We are solving a fundamental problem of the carbon nanotube," said Chongwu   
   Zhou, professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the   
   USC Viterbi School of Engineering and corresponding author of the study   
   published August 23 in the    
   journal Nano Letters. "To be able to control the atomic structure, or   
   chirality, of nanotubes has basically been our dream, a dream in the nanotube   
   field."   
      
   "Previously it was very difficult to control the chirality, or atomic   
   structure, of nanotubes, particularly when using metal nanoparticles," Bilu   
   Liu said. "The structures may look quite similar, but the properties are very   
   different. In this paper we    
   decode the atomic structure of nanotubes and show how to control precisely   
   that atomic structure."   
      
   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130826143800.htm   
      
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