Carbon nanotubes
What Carbon nanotubes means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Cylindrical fullerenes with variable lengths, forming extended structures rather than simple molecules.
Hollow cylinders of hexagonal carbon rings with a very high length to diameter ratio.
Topics that use Carbon nanotubes
- Graphene and fullerenes (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Buckminsterfullerene
- Electrical conductivity in carbon nanotubes
- Fullerenes
- Structure-property-application links
- Five-membered rings
- Graphene
- Hexagonal rings
- Spherical fullerenes
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