

Japan: A Tiny Leap Forward
BusinessWeek APRIL 14, 2003 ASIA TECH
...Today, Iijima is manipulating strands of another carbon material that he found in 1998: cone-shaped tubes dubbed nanohorns. Like nanotubes, the tiny horns are up to 100 times stronger than steel....nanohorns have a novel feature. They can be hooked together in clusters to form electrodes -- a key component of fuel cells,..."This could trigger an energy revolution," says Iijima.