Journal
SMALL
Volume 10, Issue 7, Pages 1369-1378Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201302613
Keywords
coronene; graphene nanoribbons; carbon nanotubes; encapsulation
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- European Commission through the ITN Project FINELUMEN [PITN-GA-2008-215399]
- Hungarian National Research Fund (OTKA) [75813, 105691]
- Baross Gabor Programme [REG-KM-09-1-2009-0044]
- SECTORAL OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
- European Social Fund [POSDRU 107/1.5/S/76841]
- European Research Council
- Royal Society
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/C545273/1, EP/L014696/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/C545273/1, EP/L014696/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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By exposing flat and curved carbon surfaces to coronene, a variety of van der Waals hybrid heterostructures are prepared, including coronene encapsulated in carbon nanotubes, and coronene and dicoronylene adsorbed on nanotubes or graphite via - interactions. The structure of the final product is determined by the temperature of the experiment and the curvature of the carbon surface. While at temperatures below and close to the sublimation point of coronene, nanotubes with suitable diameters are filled with single coronene molecules, at higher temperatures additional dimerization and oligomerization of coronene occurs on the surface of carbon nanotubes. The fact that dicoronylene and possible higher oligomers are formed at lower temperatures than expected for vapor-phase polymerization indicates the active role of the carbon surface used primarily as template. Removal of adsorbed species from the nanotube surface is of utmost importance for reliable characterization of encapsulated molecules: it is demonstrated that the green fluorescence attributed previously to encapsulated coronene is instead caused by dicoronylene adsorbed on the surface which can be solubilized and removed using surfactants. After removing most of the adsorbed layer, a combination of Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy was employed to follow the transformation dynamics of coronene molecules inside nanotubes.
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