Covalent Inter-Carbon-Allotrope Architectures Consisting of the Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C80 and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Using a reductive sidewall functionalization concept, we prepared for the first time a covalent inter-carbon-allotrope hybrid consisting of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and the endohedral fullerene Sc3N@C-80. The new compound type was characterized through a variety of techniques including absorption spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, TG-MS, TG-GC-MS, and MALDI-TOF MS. HRTEM investigations were carried out to visualize this highly integrated architecture.