Nanostructures and nanotubes. Nanocapilarity

• Photo-chemical Reaction Using a Carbon Nanotube as a Test Tube (May 2012).

See work published in AIST on this article.

• Optical properties of water confined in nanotubes.

• Transport in nanotubes: magnetic field effects.
  See work published in Nature Materials (2005) on Tuning the conductance of single-walled carbon nanotubes by ion irradiation in the Anderson localization regime (and nice schematic plot).

• Nanotube presentation at the Science Museum of Madrid (April 2003).

• STM-simulation images and Spectroscopy Properties of C, BN and CBN nanotubes.
  Talk on Optical properties of nanotubes (presented at the TNT2003).

• Mechanical Properties and AFM-microscopy.
  See our 1999 Psik-Highligh on Nanotubes: Mechanical and Spectroscopic Properties and our Book Chapter (B. Yakobson and A. Rubio) Mechanical properties of nanotubes.

• Vibration properties of C and BN tubes: IR and Raman spectra.

• Reactivity; H absorption, Oxidation, etc...

• Growth mechanism of carbon nanotubes.

• Coalescence of SWNT-ropes into MWNTs.

• Interaction between nanotubes: bundles, supported tubes and MWNT.

• Nuclear magnetic response in carbon nanostructures: chemical shift.

• Peapods dynamics.

• Nanomechanical devices.

Scientific highlights

• Angle-resolved photoemission study of the graphite intercalation compound KC8 : A key to graphene

• Conductance of Sidewall-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes: Universal Dependence on Adsorption Sites

More Information

• The Nanotube Site
• French GDRE NanoE
• GNT: Graphene and Nanotubes: science and applications group  (GDR-IGNT)