This MARC record contains two articles.

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.

Originally Published: Molecular Beauty, Feb. 2001; pp. 20-21.

Originally Published: Wires of Wonder, March 2001; pp. 86-91.

MOLECULAR BEAUTY -- "Carbon monoxide, a pollutant and a poison, is diamond in the rough to researchers at Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. In the company's Houston laboratories, the gas hisses along at high pressure into a hot aluminum-walled reactor, where it encounters a pinch of iron-based catalyst. As the CO molecules rip apart, the metal coaxes carbon atoms to join into hexagons, which fit together into sheets that finally roll into seamless cylinders called carbon nanotubes. They can contain millions of atoms and stretch almost as wide as the period at the end of this sentence, yet they remain single molecules." (DISCOVER) This article examines developing applications for carbon nanotubes.

WIRES OF WONDER -- "Ready for carbon fibers, stronger than steel, that could provide the cables for 'space elevators' or replace all the world's electrical transmission lines? Nobelist Richard Smalley describes his 'lunatic' vision of a nanotube world." (TECHNOLOGY REVIEW) This article presents an interview with Nobel Prize recipient Richard Smalley, who discovered a novel arrangement of carbon atoms that is taking a leading role in the development of nanotechnologies.

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