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AIST TODAYNo.21 Summer 2006 [ PDF:4MB ]


Highly Stabilized β-carotene in Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes

An effective stabilizing method for organic molecules is a bottleneck preventing their industrial application. For example, β-carotene has the following remarkable features; ultrafast optical response, third-order optical nonlinearity, and so on. However, it has not been used as photonic-devices because it easily degrades by oxidation and isomerization. We have succeeded in encapsulating β-carotene inside of single wall carbon nanotubes. The stability of β-carotene is highly improved by the encapsulation.

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Figure: Encapsulation procedure of β-carotene in SWCNT.


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AIST TODAY Vol.6 , No.5 (2006) p.26-27



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