- BFI identifier499936
- Date1997-06-03 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisDr. Sumio Iijima from NEC in Japan presents a Royal Institution discourse, describing his discovery of carbon nanotubes. The tubes, which are some 1000 times smaller than the conventional carbon fibres, have tensile strengths approximately 100 times that of steel and conduct electricity like metals. They promise a revolution in structural and electrical engineering. (Synopsis)
- CreditsDirector: Tony Annis
Production Company: The Vega Science Trust
Commissioning Company: BBC Television
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Carbon Nanotubes: The Materials of the 21st Century (Original)
Royal Institution Lecture Nanotubes by Sumio Iijima (Help search)
Nanotubes The Tiniest man-made Tubes (Help search)
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- Carbon Nanotubes: The Materials of the 21st Century
Work - 499936 - 1997-06-03 (Television)
United Kingdom - TV
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