@article{Zhou2010, 
author = {Jing Zhou and Hong Li and Jing Lu and Guangfu Luo and Lin Lai and Rui Qin and Lu Wang and Shigeru Nagase and Zhengxiang Gao and Waining Mei and Guangping Li and Dapeng Yu and and Stefano Sanvito},
title = {Selection of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes According to Both Their Diameter and Chirality via Nanotweezers},
year = {2010},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {3},
number = {4},
pages = {296-306},
keywords = {Carbon nanotubes, nanotweezer, selective adsorption, density functional theory},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-010-1033-1},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-010-1033-1},
abstract = {Diameter- and chirality-dependent interactions between aromatic molecule-based nanotweezers and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are revealed by density functional theory calculations. We found that the threshold diameter of selected SWNTs is determined by the end-to-end distance of the nanotweezer. Large-diameter SWNTs are preferred by a nanotweezer with an obtuse folding angle, whereas small-diameter SWNTs are favored by a nanotweezer with an acute folding angle. The adsorption can be further stabilized by the orientational alignment of the hexagonal rings of the nanotweezer and the SWNT sidewall. Therefore, by taking advantage of the supramolecular recognition ability of the aromatic molecule-based nanotweezer, SWNTs can be enriched with both controllable diameter and chirality.}
}