著者

末永 和知

出版者

The Crystallographic Society of Japan

雑誌

日本結晶学会誌 (ISSN:03694585)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.44, no.4, pp.234-239, 2002-08-31 (Released:2010-09-30)

参考文献数

8

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Electron microscopy and spectroscopy with the single-atom sensitivity enables us to obtain a direct image of the intra-molecular structure and chemical identification of individual metallofullerenes encapsulated inside single-walled carbon nanotubes, so-called peapods. By a comparison of high resolution images with a simulation to extract the relative atom positions for encaged metal atom in each molecule, distribution of molecular orientation and its interaction between adjacent molecules in metallofullerene-peapods have been statistically analyzed. Moreover the techniques described here demonstrates the possibilities to observe individual chemical reaction inside carbon nanotubes.