The opening and filling of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWTs)
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 3,p. 347-348
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a707632k
Abstract
Single walled nanotubes (SWTs) can be selectively opened and filled using wet chemistry techniques; treatment of the carbon nanomaterials with concentrated HCl apparently leads to the selective opening of the SWTs at their tips; foreign materials can then be deposited inside the resulting cavities in a similar fashion to multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWTs); the filling of SWTs with small spherical crystals and, additionally, preferentially orientated and elongated single crystals of Ru metal is described; the selective opening of SWTs was inferred from these observations.Keywords
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