Direct evidence for covalent functionalization of carbon nanohorns by high-resolution electron microscopy imaging of C 60 conjugated onto their skeleton

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3909-3914

  Karousis, Nikolaos ^a   Sato, Yuta ^b   Suenaga, Kazu ^b   Tagmatarchis, Nikos ^a  

^a THEORETICAL AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE GROUPS; ARYL UNITS; CARBON NANOHORN; CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES; CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS; COVALENT FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; WAVE MOTIONS;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; HYBRID MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANOHORNS;

EID: 84861624381     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.04.035     Document Type: Article

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