Imaging the passage of a single hydrocarbon chain through a nanopore

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 595-597

  Koshino, Masanori ^a   Solin, Niclas ^b,c   Tanaka, Takatsugu ^b   Isobe, Hiroyuki ^b,d   Nakamura, Eiichi ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBONS; MOLECULES; NANOTUBES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YARN;

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALS; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; HYDROCARBON CHAINS; MOLECULAR MOTIONS; MOLECULAR TRANSPORT; NANO-SCALE PORES; NANOSCALE DEFECTS; STRUCTURE AND ORIENTATION;

NANOPORES;

HYDROCARBON; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON BEAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NANOANALYSIS; NANOPORE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 53549132238     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2008.263     Document Type: Article

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