Fullerenes inside Carbon Nanotubes: The Peapods

Carbon Meta-Nanotubes: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 273-321

  Simon, Ferenc ^a   Monthioux, Marc ^b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

C60 fullerenes, in SWCNTs; Fullerene capability; Fullerene peapods; Fullerenes inside CNTs, peapods; N@C60 endohedral fullerene; Peapod classification; Peapod synthesis; Peapod synthesis, SWCNT soot; Quantum computing; SWCNT optical properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880870341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119954743.ch5b     Document Type: Chapter

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