On the Cover: Graduate student Benjamin Ulmen, left, and Yoke Khin Yap, assistant professor of physics, peer inside a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition chamber, where, atom by atom, carbon nanotubes are grown. Yap envisions a time when nanotubes will be used in applications ranging from biological sensing to flat-panel television displays.

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