The world record, for tiniest three strut tensegrity prism, is hereby awarded by the staff of the Tensegrity Wiki to Needham, Wilson, and Yakobson for their daring imagining of a nanotube tensegrity.
They propose three carbon nanotubes that are covalently tensioned, or tethered, by their capping pentagons by polyethylene polymer chains. This unusual structure is proposed by Needham, Wilson, and Yakobson and was published in the Yakobson and Couchman's article on "Carbon Nanotubes: Supramolecular Mechanics" in the Dekker
Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
The compression simulations are fascinating.
The prize? A new page in the Wiki, see Buckminsterfullerene.
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