Intercalation Compounds and Endohedral Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes

Intercalation Compounds and Endohedral Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes 

The intercalation into the interlayer space of MWNT has aheady been discussed in Section 3.5.4.2. The intertubular incorporation could especially be observed for 

For being largely inert, the central cavity of carbon nanotubes may be employed as a kind of container or reaction vessel. Calculations on reactions that comprise 

Besides gold there is a variety of metals that can be intercalated into carbon nanotubes to form nanowires. Examples include the low-melting metals lead. 

These confer new electronic and magnetic properties to the respective composite (a) silver wire inside an MWNT ( Springer 1998) (b) particles of iron oxide inside a 

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