Carbon nanotubes: Exceptional mechanical and electronic properties

Carbon nanotubes are expected to be very competitive materials: with tensil e features that surpass by far their counterparts in known high performance composite materials. In conjunction to this, remarkable electronic propert ies make them ideal components to design new microelectronic devices at the nanoscale. We review some recents results that confirm expectional mechani cal properties, and unveil new features of electronic transport. Both new f indings characterize these new Glass of materials.