Nature Communications · 21 October 2026 · From issue 55

Strain-engineered fabrication of high-density aligned graphene-based nanoscrolls via UV-tunable adhesive tapes

A light-sensitive stretchy tape rolls flat carbon sheets into dense, long nanoscrolls.

Maki Nakatani, Akari Sudo et al.

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