Onkar N. Srivastava, a physics professor at Banaras Hindu University, in India, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, a materials science professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., collaborated to create the nanotube-based structures.

Dr. Ajayan heads the Carbon Nanomaterials Technology Group at RPI. He is an alumni of IT BHU, class of '85.

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