Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jul 7, 2026
DNA Nanotubes as a Versatile Tool to Study Semiflexible Polymers
Published on: October 25, 2017
Strain measurements on individual single-walled carbon nanotubes in a polymer host: structure-dependent spectral
Tonya K Leeuw1, Dmitri A Tsyboulski, Pavel N Nikolaev
1Department of Chemistry, Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, and Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
Abstract:
The fluorescence spectra of individual semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes embedded in polymer films were measured during the application of controlled stretching and compressive strains. Nanotube band gaps were found to shift in systematic patterns that depend on the (n,m) structural type and are in excellent agreement with the predictions of theoretical models. Loss of nanotube-host adhesion was revealed by abrupt irregularities in plots of spectral shift vs strain.
