Inserting fullerene dimers into carbon nanotubes: Pushing the boundaries of molecular self-assembly

AIP CONF PROC 723 (2004) 255-258

Authors:

K Porfyrakis, AN Khlobystov, DA Britz, JJL Morton, A Ardavan, M Kanai, TJS Dennis, GAD Briggs

Abstract:

Carbon nanotubes can encapsulate several molecular species forming one-dimensional crystals. Using previously reported methods we produced directly-bonded, asymmetric C-60-C-70 dimers and oxygen-bridged dimers of the type C-60-O-C-60, We present here microscopic evidence of filling single-waited carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with the above fullerene dimers. The most important filling constraint is found to be the nanotube size. SWNTs with diameters around 1.6 nm incorporate dimers; considerably more easily than SWNTs with smaller diameters. This kind of molecular self-assembly opens up the potential for using nanotubes and fullerenes for nanodevices.

Synchrotron-Cerenkov radiation - Response

SCIENCE 303:5656 (2004) 310-311

Authors:

A Ardavan, H Ardavan, J Singleton

Unconventional quantum fluid at high magnetic fields in the marginal charge-density-wave system α-(BEDT-TTF)2MHg(SCN)4 (M=K and Rb) -: art. no. 165103

PHYSICAL REVIEW B 69:16 (2004) ARTN 165103

Authors:

N Harrison, J Singleton, A Bangura, A Ardavan, PA Goddard, RD McDonald, LK Montgomery

Angle Dependent Magnetoresistance of the Layered Organic Superconductor \kappa-(ET)2Cu(NCS)2: Simulation and Experiment

(2003)

Authors:

PA Goddard, SJ Blundell, J Singleton, RD McDonald, A Ardavan, A Narduzzo, JA Schlueter, AM Kini, T Sasaki

Intrinsic electronic transport properties of organic field-effect transitors based on single crystalline tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene

Applied Physics Letters AIP Publishing 83:23 (2003) 4782-4784

Authors:

M-S Nam, A Ardavan, RJ Cava, PM Chaikin