Water-filled single-wall carbon nanotubes as molecular nanovalves

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-141

  Maniwa, Yutaka ^a,b   Matsuda, Kazuyuki ^a   Kyakuno, Haruka ^a   Ogasawara, Syunsuke ^a   Hibi, Toshihide ^a   Kadowaki, Hiroaki ^a   Suzuki, Shinzo ^a   Achiba, Yohji ^a   Kataura, Hiromichi ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

GAS MOLECULES; MOLECULAR NANOVALVES; SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; STRUCTURAL TRANSITION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33846798175     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1823     Document Type: Article

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