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Nanotube knockout

Nature Chemistry volume 4, pages 598–600 (2012)Cite this article

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Organic molecular building blocks can self-assemble into structures with interesting optoelectronic properties. A combination of selective chemistry, spectroscopy and thorough theoretical analysis of a double-wall supramolecular nanotube has now led to a detailed model of its structure and internal excitonic coupling.

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Figure 1: Modelling the structure of a double-wall supramolecular nanotube.

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  1. Jürgen Köhler is in the Department of Physics and the Bayreuth Institute for Macromolecular Research (BIMF), University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany,

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