Robert Vajtai, Enrique Barrera and Sehmus Ozden (IMAGE)

Rice University

Robert Vajtai, Enrique Barrera and Sehmus Ozden

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Rice University researchers, from left, Robert Vajtai, Enrique Barrera and Sehmus Ozden at the two-stage gas gun used to fire nanotube pellets at hypervelocity speeds. Smashing the pellets against a target at certain angles turned the nanotubes into nanoribbons, graphitic carbon and even nanodiamonds.

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Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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