Encapsulation of single-molecule magnets in carbon nanotubes

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Del Carmen Giménez López, Maria ^a   Moro, Fabrizio ^a   La Torre, Alessandro ^a   Gómez García, Carlos J ^b   Brown, Paul D ^a   Van Slageren, Joris ^a   Khlobystov, Andrei N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE 12 ACETATE; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOTUBE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DATA STORAGE DEVICE; ELECTRONICS; ENCAPSULATION; MAGNET; MAGNETISM; SINGLE MOLECULE MAGNET;

EID: 79960910458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1415     Document Type: Article

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