Cycloaddition Functionalizations to Preserve or Control the Conductance of Carbon Nanotubes

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2006-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608146v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages, 6 figures, Phys. Rev. Lett., in press

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.116801

We identify a class of covalent functionalizations that preserves or controls the conductance of single-walled metallic carbon nanotubes. [2+1] cycloadditions can induce bond cleaving between adjacent sidewall carbons, recovering in the process the $sp^2$ hybridization and the ideal conductance of the pristine tubes. This is radically at variance with the damage permanently induced by other common ligands, where a single covalent bond is formed with a sidewall carbon. Chirality, curvature, and chemistry determine bond cleaving, and in turn the electrical transport properties of a functionalized tube. A well-defined range of diameters can be found for which certain addends exhibit a bistable state, where the opening or closing of the sidewall bond, accompanied by a switch in the conductance, could be directed with chemical, optical or thermal means.

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