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Nanotube chemistry tunes light

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Room-temperature single-photon emission at several wavelengths in the near-infrared, including the telecom window, is realized by organic colour centres chemically implanted on chirality-defined single-walled carbon nanotubes.

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Figure 1: Single-walled carbon nanotubes have many different structural forms as denoted by their (n, m) indices.

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  1. the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, 20899, Maryland, USA

    Kartik Srinivasan

  2. the Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, 20899, Maryland, USA

    Ming Zheng

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Srinivasan, K., Zheng, M. Nanotube chemistry tunes light. Nature Photon 11, 535–537 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.143

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