US Patent 7071406- Single Walled Nanotube Array

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7071406.pdf

Rice University (aka Smalley et al.) continues in its efforts to corner the market on single walled nanotubes with this patent. Claim 1 reads:

1. A macroscopic molecular array comprising at least about 1,000,000 single-wall carbon nanotubes, wherein (a) all of the single-wall carbon nanotubes in the macroscopic molecular array are in generally parallel orientation, and (b) all of the single-wall carbon nanotubes in the macroscopic molecular array have a substantially similar length, wherein the similar length is in the range of from about 5 to about 500 nanometers.