During the spectra of today's temperature dependence series, I wrote a little Visual Basic script in AutoCAD to draw single-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The above picture, a typical result, depicts four CNTs of similar diameter (0.95. 0.83, 1.05 and 0.96 nm, respectively) of zig-zag (n,0), chiral (n,m), and armchair (n,n) classification. The (7,5) and (7,6) tubes are two of the dominant species present in CoMoCAT CNT-material, which is grown using a special catalyst by Soutwest Nanotechnologies Inc. for large sums of money.
Hopefully such pretty pictures will aid the explaination of nanotube geometry in the introductory chapter of my forthcoming thesis.
Posted by doig 
Posted by doig 
I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see -- because I do not happen to be a 'Somebody' -- why my blog should not be interesting. My only regret is that I did not commence it when I was a youth.
