1D lanthanide halide crystals inserted into single-walled carbon nanotubes
- 21 November 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 24,p. 2427-2428
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b006817i
Abstract
1D crystals of lanthanide halides of the form LnCl3 (Ln = La, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb or Yb) have been inserted into single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) using the molten salt capillary filling method; ca. 20–40% of all the observed SWNTs were filled with melts in the range 650–910 °C with no observable damage to the carbon tubules; high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) studies showed that the nanostructures of the encapsulated crystals varied with tubule diameter.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: