Pictures

When using these pictures, please acknowledge "Tobias Hertel, Vanderbilt University".

Cell with suspension of photoluminescent carbon nanotubes. Left: image in the visible range; right: photoluminescence at 982 nm measured with the same Silicon CCD detector.

Ball and stick model of two crossing (10,10) tubes on a graphite surface.

Schematic illustration of the definition of chiral tube indices.

Two chirality enriched carbon nanotube suspensions, with tubes of predominantly one optical band gap.

Wavefunction of the lowest dipole allowed exciton in a (6,5) nanotube.

Photo of our short pulse (sub 50 fs) optical parametric amplifier.

1 square micron AFM image of 4 crossing multi-wall carbon nanotubes.

Ball and stick and scanning tunneling microscope composite image of a single wall carbon nanotube.

Ball and stick models of two semiconducting and one metallic SWNT.

Ball and stick model of a (5,5) nanotube with half a C_60 molecule as cap.

Vial with colloidal suspension of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanottubes separated by density gradient ultracentrifugation.

High resolution transmission electron microscope image of a sodium-cholate suspended carbon nanotube mixture (HIPCO material).

High resolution transmission electron microscope image of a sodium-cholate suspended double wall carbon nanotube crystallite (Emmanuel Flahaut material).

High resolution transmission electron microscope image of a sodium-cholate suspended double wall carbon nanotube crystallite (Emmanuel Flahaut material).

Ball and stick model of a sodium cholate suspended (6,5) carbon nanotube.

Ball and stick model of a sodium cholate suspended (6,5) carbon nanotube.

Ball and stick model of a fullerene molecule.

Ball and stick model of a graphite crystallite.

Ball and stick model of a diamond crystallite.

	Cell with suspension of photoluminescent carbon nanotubes. Left: image in the visible range; right: photoluminescence at 982 nm measured with the same Silicon CCD detector.
	Ball and stick model of two crossing (10,10) tubes on a graphite surface.
	Schematic illustration of the definition of chiral tube indices.
	Two chirality enriched carbon nanotube suspensions, with tubes of predominantly one optical band gap.
	Wavefunction of the lowest dipole allowed exciton in a (6,5) nanotube.
	Photo of our short pulse (sub 50 fs) optical parametric amplifier.
	1 square micron AFM image of 4 crossing multi-wall carbon nanotubes.
	Ball and stick and scanning tunneling microscope composite image of a single wall carbon nanotube.
	Ball and stick models of two semiconducting and one metallic SWNT.
	Ball and stick model of a (5,5) nanotube with half a C_60 molecule as cap.
	Vial with colloidal suspension of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanottubes separated by density gradient ultracentrifugation.
	High resolution transmission electron microscope image of a sodium-cholate suspended carbon nanotube mixture (HIPCO material).
	High resolution transmission electron microscope image of a sodium-cholate suspended double wall carbon nanotube crystallite (Emmanuel Flahaut material).
	High resolution transmission electron microscope image of a sodium-cholate suspended double wall carbon nanotube crystallite (Emmanuel Flahaut material).
	Ball and stick model of a sodium cholate suspended (6,5) carbon nanotube.
	Ball and stick model of a sodium cholate suspended (6,5) carbon nanotube.
	Ball and stick model of a fullerene molecule.
	Ball and stick model of a graphite crystallite.
	Ball and stick model of a diamond crystallite.