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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Boron fibers

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By using carbon nanotubes as a scaffold, MIT engineers grow forests of “white graphene” that emerge (in MIT pattern) after burning away the black carbon scaffold. Courtesy of the researchers

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Courtesy of Brian Wardle et. al

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