Abstract
A carbon nanotube is a molecule of pure carbon, as it is the case for graphite and diamond. Its shape is the one of a tube, whose diameter measures about one nanometre, thus 100 times thinner than a single hair. Carbon nanotubes are the most common kind of nanotubes on which the industry is working on for the moment. When not explicitly written in this paper, nanotubes refer to carbon nanotubes. The particularity and the newness of the nanotubes is situated in their extraordinary properties, it is 100 times more resistant than steel, twice as light as aluminium, better electrical conductor than copper, and better thermal conductor than diamond. It also has excellent mechanical properties, being elastic and hollow, and is biocompatible.
