Direct imaging of o-carborane molecules within single walled carbon nanotubes
David A Morgan1, Jeremy Sloan, Malcolm L H Green
1Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK OX1 3QR.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 15, 2002
Abstract:
Ortho-carborane molecules have been inserted into single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and imaged directly by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM); both discrete molecules and 'zig-zag' 1D chains of o-carborane 'petit pois' were observed to pack into the tubule capillaries.
