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Dreams of a hollow future

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Carbon nanotubes have become familiar components in nanotechnology. Nanotubes made from inorganic materials are now on the rise, the latest creation being nanoscale tubes of a complex manganese oxide.

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Figure 1: Going inorganic.

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Hueso, L., Mathur, N. Dreams of a hollow future. Nature 427, 301–303 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/427301a

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