Single-walled carbon nanotubes filled with M OH (M = K, Cs) and then washed and refilled with clusters and molecules

Narun Thamavaranukup; Henning A Hoppe; Luisa Ruiz-Gonzalez; Pedro M F J Costa; Jeremy Sloan; Angus Kirkland; Malcolm L H Green

doi:10.1039/b405956e

Single-walled carbon nanotubes filled with M OH (M = K, Cs) and then washed and refilled with clusters and molecules

Chem Commun (Camb). 2004 Aug 7:(15):1686-7. doi: 10.1039/b405956e. Epub 2004 Jun 28.

Authors

Narun Thamavaranukup¹, Henning A Hoppe, Luisa Ruiz-Gonzalez, Pedro M F J Costa, Jeremy Sloan, Angus Kirkland, Malcolm L H Green

Affiliation

¹ Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK.

PMID: 15278137
DOI: 10.1039/b405956e

Abstract

Heating single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with molten hydroxides MOH (M = K, Cs) gave MOH@SWNT in good yield; high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) indicated that CsOH in CsOH@SWNT often adopts twisted 1D crystal structures inside SWNTs; treating MOH@SWNT with water at room temperature removes the soluble hydroxide filling and the resulting SWNTs may then be filled using aqueous solutions of uranyl acetate or uranyl nitrate at rt giving SWNTs filled with UO(2) clusters and uranyl acetate molecules.