Single-Molecule Sensing Using Carbon Nanotubes Decorated with Magnetic Clusters

[en] First-principles and nonequilibrium Green's function techniques are used to investigate magnetism and spin-polarized quantum transport in metallic carbon nanotubes (CNT) decorated with transition metal (Ni_13, Pt_13) magnetic nanoclusters (NC). For small cluster sizes, the strong CNT-NC interaction induces spin-polarization in the CNT. The adsorption of a benzene molecule is found to drastically modify the CNT-NC magnetization. Such a magnetization change should be large enough to be detected via magnetic-AFM or SQUID magnetometry, hence suggesting a novel approach for single-molecule gas detection.

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Chemistry
Physics

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Zanolli, Zeila ; Université de Liège > Département de physique > Physique théorique des matériaux

Charlier, Jean-Christophe; Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) > Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (IMCN)

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English

Title :

Single-Molecule Sensing Using Carbon Nanotubes Decorated with Magnetic Clusters

Publication date :

2012

Journal title :

ACS Nano

ISSN :

1936-0851

eISSN :

1936-086X

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American Chemical Society, Washington, United States - District of Columbia

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Pages :

10786–10791

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http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn304111a

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