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Directly observed covalent coupling of quantum dots to single-wall carbon nanotubes
Bobak R Azamian1, Karl S Coleman, Jason J Davis
1Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK OX1 3QR.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 18, 2002
Abstract:
Carboxylate chemistry is used to covalently couple metal nanoparticles to defect sites in controllably oxidized single-walled carbon nanotube termini and side-walls, and this process monitored by atomic force microscopy.