
Guoqiang Ren
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Senior Engineer, Applied Materials, Inc. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (2010) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.
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Carbon nanotube, nanoscale hollow tubes composed of carbon atoms. The cylindrical carbon molecules feature high aspect ratios (length-to-diameter values) typically above 103, with diameters from about 1 nanometer up to tens of nanometers and lengths up to millimeters. This unique one-dimensional…
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