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Superacids offer nanotube solution

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Single-walled carbon nanotubes can be dissolved in superacids to produce solutions that should make it easier to process nanotubes into bulk structures.

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Figure 1: Free energies and different phases.

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  1. Alan Windle is in the Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK. ahw1@cam.ac.uk,

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Windle, A. Superacids offer nanotube solution. Nature Nanotech 4, 800–801 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.366

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