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Chem. Commun., 2005, 37 - 39, DOI: 10.1039/b414247k

Chemical reactions inside single-walled carbon nano test-tubes

David A. Britz, Andrei N. Khlobystov, Kyriakos Porfyrakis, Arzhang Ardavan and G. Andrew D. Briggs

We report the application of SWNTs as templates for forming covalent polymeric chains from C60O reacting inside SWNTs; the resulting peapod polymer topology is different from the bulk polymer in that it is linear and unbranched.

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