【研究成果】2007-2010年

研究成果22

Temporally dynamic photopolymerization of C₆₀ molecules encapsulated in single-walled carbon nanotubes Yuika Saito, Mitsuhiro Honda, Yoshikiyo Moriguchi and Prabhat Verma

PHYSICAL REVIEW B 81, 245416 (2010) Raman and TERS measurements showed evidences of  simultaneous occurrence of polymerization and depolymerization of C60 encapsulated inside single-walled carbon nanotube (en-C60) during the laser irradiation: the unique movement of C60 molecules inside SWNT generates frictional heat, which results in the scission of polymeric bonds between neighboring C60 molecules, resulting in a dynamic coexistence of polymers and monomers, never completely polymerized like the nonencapsulated bulk-C60 molecules.