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Experimental and theoretical studies on the electronic properties of praseodymium chloride-filled single-walled carbon nanotubes

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Praseodymium chloride (PrCl3) was encapsulated into channels of 1.4 nm diameter single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) by a capillary filling method. The high-resolution transmission electron microscopy data demonstrated a high filling factor of the nanotubes and the formation of one-dimensional (1D) PrCl3 nanocrystals. The optical absorption, Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy data testified to the filling-induced lowering of the Fermi level of the nanotubes as a result of the electron transfer from the SWCNTs to the embedded PrCl3. The density functional theory modeling showed the absence of local chemical interactions between the nanotubes and the 1D crystals. It was found that the incorporated PrCl3 has stronger influence on the electronic properties of metallic nanotubes than semiconducting SWCNTs.

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Acknowledgements

Authors thank Dr. A.V. Krestinin (Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, RAS, Chernogolovka) for providing the pristine SWCNTs. The NEXAFS and XPS spectra were measured at the Russian–German beamline as a part of the bilateral program “Russian-German Laboratory at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin”. Quantum chemical calculations were performed using SKIF MSU and “Lomonosov” supercomputers, Supercomputing Center of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The authors acknowledge a partial support from Lomonosov Moscow State University Program of Development and Russian Science Foundation (Grant No. 14-13-00747).

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    M. V. Kharlamova & A. V. Lukashin

  2. Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Leninskie gory 1-3, Moscow, Russia

    A. A. Volykhov, L. V. Yashina & A. V. Egorov

  3. Rare Metals Institute “GIREDMET”, 119017 B. Tolmachevsky 5, Moscow, Russia

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Kharlamova, M.V., Volykhov, A.A., Yashina, L.V. et al. Experimental and theoretical studies on the electronic properties of praseodymium chloride-filled single-walled carbon nanotubes. J Mater Sci 50, 5419–5430 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-015-9086-x

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