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Visualizing fullerene chemistry

Chemical reactions of fullerenes and metallofullerenes lined up inside single-walled carbon nanotubes can be monitored at the atomic scale inside an aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope.

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Figure 1: Single-walled carbon nanotubes as nanosize test tubes.

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Terrones, M. Visualizing fullerene chemistry. Nature Chem 2, 82–83 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.526

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