Switchable conductance in functionalized carbon nanotubes via reversible sidewall bond cleavage

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4455-4465

  Li, Elise Y ^a   Poilvert, Nicolas ^a   Marzari, Nicola ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

first principles calculations; functionalized carbon nanotubes; quantum conductance

Indexed keywords

BOND CLEAVAGES; BOND-BREAKING; CIS-TRANS ISOMERIZATION; COVALENT FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; CYCLOADDITIONS; CYCLOPROPANE MOIETIES; DIRECT CONTROL; EXCITED-STATE PROTON TRANSFER; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES; HYDROLYSIS REACTION; LOW DEGREE; METALLIC CARBON NANOTUBES; METALLIC TUBES; NANOSCALE DEVICE; ORBITAL INTERACTION; QUANTUM CONDUCTANCE; RE-HYBRIDIZATION; REVERSIBLE CONTROL; SWITCHABLE; SWITCHING ACTION;

CALCULATIONS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXCITED STATES; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; ISOMERIZATION; PROPANE; REAL TIME CONTROL; REDOX REACTIONS;

CHEMICAL BONDS;

BENZOQUINONE; BENZOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; CARBON NANOTUBE; CYCLOPROPANE; CYCLOPROPANE DERIVATIVE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; KETONE; OXYGEN; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; HYDROLYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BENZOQUINONES; CYCLOPROPANES; ELECTRONS; FULLERENES; HYDROLYSIS; KETONES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; QUANTUM THEORY; QUINONES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79959798243     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201022j     Document Type: Article

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