A carbon nanotube is a tiny wire made of carbon that is a few atoms wide. The atoms are in the shape of a tube, hence the name carbon nanotube.
iNanotube
Manipulate, design, and construct carbon nanotubes in a 3d, user friendly, intuitive app.
This app (designed by an esteemed professor of nanotechnology) shows graphically how you take a sheet of graphene (a one-atom thin sheet of carbon atoms, whose discovery earned the Nobel Prize in 2010), and roll it up into a tube: a carbon nanotube.
