ABSTRACT
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were originally discovered as by-products of fullerenes and now are considered to be the building blocks of future nanoscale electronic and mechanical devices. The credit for the discovery of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) is given to Sumio Iijima. His work was published in Nature in 1991 [1]. Much of the historical development of CNTs including single-walled and multiwalled carbon nanotubes is covered in Chapter 2.
