Patent 7632569 was granted and assigned to Rice University on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
This invention relates generally to forming an array of fullerene nanotubes. In one embodiment, a macroscopic molecular array is provided comprising at least about 106 fullerene nanotubes in generally parallel orientation and having substantially similar lengths in the range of from about 5 to about 500 nanometers.