Molecular dipoles can self-assemble in a head-to-tail fashion inside single-walled carbon nanotubes to form a material with a large second-order nonlinear optical response.
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Zhang, Y., Blau, W. Dipoles align inside a nanotube. Nature Nanotech 10, 205–206 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.9
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