carbon nanotube

English

Noun

carbon nanotube (plural carbon nanotubes)

1. Any nanostructure, a member of the fullerene family, having graphene layers wrapped into perfect cylinders.

Synonyms

• buckytube
• CNT (abbreviation)

Derived terms

• carbon nanotube reinforced plastic
• carbon nanotube reinforced polymer
• CNRP
• CNT (abbreviation)
• CNTRP

 

Translations

nanostructure having graphene layers wrapped into perfect cylinders

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碳納米管／碳纳米管 (zh) (tànnàmǐguǎn) (Mainland China), 碳奈米管 (tànnàimǐguǎn) (Taiwan)

• Finnish: hiilinanoputki
• French: nanotube de carbone (fr) m
• German: Kohlenstoffnanoröhre f
• Romanian: nanotub de carbon n