"Anytime it is possible to move science one step further, I'll do it." - Z.F. Ren
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"He is a scientist of international distinction active in one of the hottest field of science: new materials for nanotechnology. In a relatively short time, he has made his mark in two very different areas of materials synthesis: superconductor thin films and nanotubes. "
"He is clearly an incredibly gifted experimental physicist with a tremendous variety of laboratory and analytical skills."
"In theory, single-walled carbon nanotubes have a maximum tensile strain of around 20%. But by stretching the nanotubes at high temperature, researchers at Boston College, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in the US, have extended nanotubes by almost 280%", reported by nanotechweb.
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" For the light antenna, Yang Wang and colleagues at Boston College used carbon nanotubes, which are microscopic structures built out of carbon atoms. " Applied Physics Letters, 27 September 2004
SEM images of hierarchical ZnO nanostructures with basic 6-fold (first row),
4-fold (second row), and 2-fold (third row) symmetry made by thermal vapor transport
and condensation technique. The primary core nanowires are either pure In2O3
or In2O3-doped ZnO, whereas the secondary branch nanowires are pure ZnO. Z.
Ren, J. Lao, and J. Wen, p 1287.