Tuning the redox activity of encapsulated metal clusters via the metallic and semiconducting character of carbon nanotubes.

ABSTRACT: We demonstrate that reactions confined within single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) channels are modulated by the metallic and semiconducting character of the hosts. In situ Raman and X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopies provide complementary information about the electronic state of carbon nanotubes and the encapsulated rhenium species, which reveal electronic interactions between encapsulated species and nanotubes. More electrons are transferred from metallic tubes (m-SWCNTs) to oxidic rhenium clusters, leading to a lower valence state rhenium oxide than that in semiconducting tubes (s-SWCNTs). Reduction in 3.5% (vol/vol) H2/Ar leads to weakened host-guest electronic interaction. The high valence state Re within s-SWCNTs is more readily reduced when raising the temperature

SUBMITTER: Zhang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3773745 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature