Intercalated carbon nanotube

Suzuki S, Tomita M. Observation of potassium-intercalated carbon nanotubes and their valence-band excitation spectra. J Appl Phys 1996 79 3739-3743. 

ELECTROCHEMICAL INTERCALATION OF PFg AND BF4 INTO SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES... 

Single-walled carbon nanotubes SWNT anion intercalation. 

B. Gao, A. Kleinhammes, X.P. Tang, C. Bower, L. Fleming, Y. Wu, 0. Zhou, Electrochemical intercalation of singie-waiied carbon nanotubes with lithium, Chem. Phys. Lett., vol. 307, pp. 153-157,1999. 

Govindaraj A, Satishkumar BC, Nath M, Rao CNR (2000) Metal Nanowires and Intercalated Metal Layers in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles. Chem Mater 12 202-205... 

The development of new porous materials that could be used as adsorbents, catalysts, catalyst supports, molecular sieves, etc. [1], are very well discussed by several authors [2-9], describing interesting properties and characteristics of materials such as MCM-41, MCM-48, M41S, FSM16, lamellar phases, intercalation products, special CMS (carbon molecular sieves), fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, etc. being some of them silica based materials, and carbon based the others. 

Research in graphite intercalates has paved the way for significant current interest in intercalation compounds of the fullerenes (Box 7.1) and carbon nanotubes, which represent wrapped up versions of graphite sheets. Graphite intercalation compounds have been prepared with intercalated fullerenes and nanotubes. We will return to carbon nanotube chemistry in Chapter 15. 

Many samples are unstable in air. Examples of air-sensitive compounds are alkali metal intercalated C60, carbon nanotubes, and graphite, which are... 

Maurin G, Bousquet Ch, Henn F, Bernier P, Almairac R, Simon B. Electrochemical intercalation of lithium into multiwall carbon nanotubes. Chem Phys Lett 1999 312 14-18. 

Wang X, Liu H, Jin Y, Chen C. Polymer-functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes as lithium intercalation hosts. J Phys Chem B 2006 110 10236-10240. 

Gao B, Kleinhammes A, Tang XP, Bower C, Fleming L, Wu Y, Zhou O. Electrochemical intercalation of single-walled carbon nanotubes with lithium. Chem Phys Lett 1997 307 153-157. 

Moriguchi I, Hidaka R, Yamada H, Kudo T, Murakami H, Nakashima N. A mesoporous nanocomposite of Ti02 and carbon nanotubes as a high-rate Li-intercalation electrode material. Adv Mater 2006 18 69-73. 

NEW ALLOTROPES OF CARBON GRAPHITE INTERCALATION COMPOUNDS, FULLERENES, FULLEROIDS, CARBON NANOTUBES, PEAPODS, AND GRAPHENE... 

The filling control approach has even been applied to some nanophase materials. For example, the onset of metallicity has been observed in individual alkali metal-doped single-walled zigzag carbon nanotubes. Zigzag nanotubes are semiconductors with a band gap around 0.6 eV. Using tubes that are (presumably) open on each end, it has been observed that upon vapor phase intercalation of potassium into the interior of the nanotube, electrons are donated to the empty conduction band, thereby raising the Fermi level and inducing metallic behavior (Bockrath, 1999). 

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