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May 26th, 2003

Buckyball wires sheathed with boron nitride insulation

Abstract:
Berkeley Lab scientists have created insulated electrical wires that are about 100,000 times narrower in diameter than a human hair. These insulated wires are single-walled carbon nanotubes encased within an outer sheath of boron nitride nanotubes.

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