Imaging the dynamic behaviour of individual retinal chromophores confined inside carbon nanotubes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 422-425

  Liu, Zheng ^a   Yanagi, Kazuhiro ^a   Suenaga, Kazu ^a   Kataura, Hiromichi ^a   Iijima, Sumio ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ISOMERIZATION; ISOMERS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULES; NANOTUBES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; YARN;

BIOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CIS/TRANS ISOMERIZATION; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOURS; PHOTO-RESPONSIVE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; STRUCTURAL ISOMERS; TIME RESOLUTION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CARBON DYNAMICS; CHROMATOPHORE; CIS ISOMER; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ISOMER; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETINA; TIME; TRANS ISOMER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 34447125105     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.187     Document Type: Article

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