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Carbon Nanotubes by Electron Microscopy

Japan · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1991

Sumio Iijima1991

Tsukuba · Science / Technology

Uses high-resolution electron microscopy to identify multiwalled carbon nanotubes, opening a major field of nanoscale electronic materials.

Names involved

Sumio Iijima

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