Luzzi, David E. (Pennsylvania, USA): Synthesis, structure and properties of fullerene and non-fullerene peapods
Do as synthetized CNTs contain defects? YES!
- Resistance proportional to length
- Direct STM images of defects
- SWNT exposed to Cs vapor then placed into TEM vacuum system. TEM video shows preferential sites for the dark spots
Peapods as a material class.
- Useful filled materials.
- C60 peapods: weakly interacting system.
- Endohedral fullerenes are intresting but small volume and high price.
- Peapod filling from solution, melt, vapor. Vapor filling is the most effctive.
- Stability of endohedrals is greatly enhanced within the SWNTs.
- Er3N@C80 begins to react at 800C -- complete at 950C.
- Sulution filling with e.g. FeCl2+CoCl2.
- Positive proof that H2 enters into SWNTs.