Toward controlled spacing in one-dimensional molecular chains: Alkyl-chain-functionalized fullerenes in carbon nanotubes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 129, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 8609-8614

  Chamberlain, Thomas W ^a   Camenisch, Andrew ^a   Champness, Neil R ^a   Briggs, G Andrew D ^b   Benjamin, Simon C ^b   Ardavan, Arzhang ^b   Khlobystov, Andrei N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN-FUNCTIONALIZED FULLERENES; FULLERENE ARRAYS; INTERFULLERENE SEPARATIONS; PERIODICITY;

CONFORMATIONS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SEPARATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

FULLERENES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 34447540073     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja071803q     Document Type: Article

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