Functionalised endohedral fullerenes in single-walled carbon nanotubes
Maria del Carmen Gimenez-Lopez1, Andrey Chuvilin, Ute Kaiser
1School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 25, 2010
Abstract:
Atomically thin carbon nanotubes serve as transparent-test tubes for individual molecules of functionalised endohedral fullerenes. Aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy reveals the complex dynamic behaviour of these molecules at the atomic level, and it sheds light on the mechanism of their encapsulation into nanotubes.
