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The Nanospace Inside Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

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Frontiers of Multifunctional Integrated Nanosystems

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry ((NAII,volume 152))

Abstract

The nanospace inside single wall carbon nanotubes was studied by Raman spectroscopy and high resolution transmission electron microscopy. To explore this space, C60 molecules were filled into the tubes to create a peapod system. Upon doping with electron donors the cage of the tubes as well as the cages of the fullerenes received charge and eventually turned into C60 −6 molecules. These molecules react to a linear and single bonded polymeric phase. Alternatively, upon annealing at high temperatures the C60 molecules serve as a carbon source to grow a second tube inside the primary tube. This tube exhibits extremely narrow Raman lines for the radial breathing mode indicating a highly defect free material. They thus apostrophe the inside of the tube cage as a nano clean room. The small size of the inner-shell tubes allows for a full assignment of the observed radial breathing modes to chiral vectors. The deviation of electronic and vibrational properties of the tubes from a tight binding behavior is demonstrated.

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  1. Institut für Materialphysik der Universität Wien, Strudlhofgasse 4, A-1090, Wien, A

    H. Kuzmany, R. Pfeiffer & C. Kramberger

  2. Leibnitz Institut für Festkörper und Werkstofforschung, Dresden, D

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Kuzmany, H., Pfeiffer, R., Kramberger, C., Pichler, T. (2004). The Nanospace Inside Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes. In: Buzaneva, E., Scharff, P. (eds) Frontiers of Multifunctional Integrated Nanosystems. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 152. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2173-9_17

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