When conductors are reduced to molecular dimensions they can develop exotic properties. Physicists have now directly confirmed unusual electron behaviour in carbon nanotubes.
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Goldhaber-Gordon, D., Goldhaber-Gordon, I. Momentous period for nanotubes. Nature 412, 595–597 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35088162
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