Capturing the motion of molecular nanomaterials encapsulated within carbon nanotubes with ultrahigh temporal resolution

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3037-3044

  Warner, Jamie H ^a   Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Rümmeli, Mark H ^b   Büchner, Bernd ^b   Shinohara, Hisanori ^c   Briggs, G Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aberration corrected; HRTEM; Nanomaterials; Nanotubes; Peapods

Indexed keywords

BACK UP; ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; HRTEM; IN-SITU; LOW-VOLTAGE; METAL CLUSTER; METALLOFULLERENES; MOTIONAL DYNAMICS; NANOMATERIALS; PEAPODS; SURROUNDING REGIONS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

ABERRATIONS; CARBON CLUSTERS; ELECTRON BEAMS; FULLERENES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IRRADIATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 70350634137     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900747r     Document Type: Article

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