Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 4853 –4857Carbon Nanotubes王秀杰.pdf

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201007832 Carbon Nanotubes Coaxially Stacked Coronene Columns inside Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes** Toshiya Okazaki,* Yoko Iizumi, Shingo Okubo, Hiromichi Kataura, Zheng Liu, Kazu Suenaga, Yoshio Tahara, Masako Yudasaka, Susumu Okada, and Sumio Iijima One of the most interesting features of molecular materials is Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can offer a the fact that their physical properties change with the suitable interior space for the accommodation of mole- arrangement of the molecules as well as with the properties cules.[3–5] Nanostructures produced by the incorporation of of the molecules themselves. Self-organization is an efficient such molecules into SWCNTs are expected to exhibit several pathway through which organic molecules assemble to form superior features. For example, because the diameter of well-ordered nanometer-scale objects that are hardly synthe- SWCNTs can be adjusted to the size of the molecules, well- sized by conventional chemical reactions. In these systems, ordered molecular arrangements more than a micrometer in two or more molecules are held together and are assembled length can be easily produced. The synthesized molecular by means of intermolecular (noncovalent) bonding such as arrangements are also expected to be strong and flexible ion–dipole or dipole–dipole interactions, hydrogen bonding, under mechanical strain because the nanotube templates hydrophobic interactions, or p–p stacking. Such molecular sustain the structure. Furthermore, the already synthesized self-organization and recognition processe