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Science 22 May 1998:
Vol. 280. no. 5367, pp. 1253 - 1256
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5367.1253
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Fullerene Pipes

Jie Liu, Andrew G. Rinzler, Hongjie Dai, Jason H. Hafner, R. Kelley Bradley, Peter J. Boul, Adrian Lu, Terry Iverson, Konstantin Shelimov, Chad B. Huffman, Fernando Rodriguez-Macias, Young-Seok Shon, T. Randall Lee, Daniel T. Colbert, Richard E. Smalley *

Single-wall fullerene nanotubes were converted from nearly endless, highly tangled ropes into short, open-ended pipes that behave as individual macromolecules. Raw nanotube material was purified in large batches, and the ropes were cut into 100- to 300-nanometer lengths. The resulting pieces formed a stable colloidal suspension in water with the help of surfactants. These suspensions permit a variety of manipulations, such as sorting by length, derivatization, and tethering to gold surfaces.

J. Liu, A. G. Rinzler, H. Dai, J. H. Hafner, R. K. Bradley, P. J. Boul, A. Lu, T. Iverson, K. Shelimov, C. B. Huffman, F. Rodriguez-Macias, D. T. Colbert, R. E. Smalley, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice Quantum Institute, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Y.-S. Shon and T. R. Lee, Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: res{at}cnst.rice.edu

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