Electronic and vibrational properties of chemically modified single-wall carbon nanotubes

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
9774260	Surface Science Reports	2005	109 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Recent experimental work on the chemical functionalization of single-wall carbon nanotubes and its implication on the tubes' electronic and vibrational properties are surveyed. The dependence of chemical reactivity on the physical and electronic structure of the tubes is discussed. Moreover, experimentally observed changes of the electronic and photonic structure are compared to theoretical predictions for various non-covalent and covalent functionalization schemes.

Keywords

EELS STS HOPG STM AFM FWHM VHS NFE FET HiPco GGA DFT UV–vis–NIR Tight-binding Electrochemistry Tem LDA Field-effect transistor Density of states Local density approximation van Hove singularity Chemisorption Radial breathing mode DOS CVD Chemical vapour deposition RBM FTIR Electron energy loss spectroscopy Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy Raman spectroscopy Ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy Full width at half-maximum Fourier-transform infrared Physisorption Infrared SEM Monolayer Scanning electron microscopy Transmission electron microscopy Scanning tunnelling microscopy atomic force microscopy Carbon nanotubes Density functional theory IETS Surface functionalization Highly oriented pyrolytic graphite UPS