Diameter-selective encapsulation of metallocenes in single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 481-485

  Li, Lain Jong ^a   Khlobystov, A N ^a,b   Wiltshire, J G ^a   Briggs, G A D ^a   Nicholas, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ATOMS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENCAPSULATION; MOLECULES; ORGANOMETALLICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

CONDUCTION BAND; METALLOCENES; OPTICAL BANDGAP; SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOHORNS (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

BIOMATERIAL; CARBON NANOTUBE; COBALT; METALLOCENE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EVALUATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; COBALT; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 20144380980     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1396     Document Type: Article

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