Credit to Pioneering Work on Carbon Nanotubes

TL;DR

This paper highlights a pioneering but underrecognized study on the structure and formation of multi-layer carbon nanotubes, using microscopy and diffraction data to propose a model and hypotheses about their chirality.

Contribution

It credits an overlooked foundational paper that introduced a model of nanotube structure formation based on microscopy and diffraction analysis.

Findings

Proposed a model of nanotube structure formation

Suggested hypotheses on nanotube chirality

Highlighted the importance of microscopy and diffraction data

Abstract

This letter gives a credit to a pioneering paper that is almost unknown to scientific community. On the basis of Transmission Electron Microscopy images and X-ray Ray Diffraction patterns of carbon multi-layer tubular crystals the authors suggested a model of nanotube structure formation and hypothesis on various chirality of carbon nanotubes.