Single-Molecule Sensing Using Carbon Nanotubes Decorated with Magnetic Clusters. Zanolli, Z. & Charlier, J. ACS Nano, 6(12):10786–10791, 2012.
Single-Molecule Sensing Using Carbon Nanotubes Decorated with Magnetic Clusters [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
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 (Ni13, Pt13) 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.
@article{zanolli_single-molecule_2012,
	title = {Single-{Molecule} {Sensing} {Using} {Carbon} {Nanotubes} {Decorated} with {Magnetic} {Clusters}},
	volume = {6},
	issn = {1936-0851},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn304111a},
	doi = {10.1021/nn304111a},
	abstract = {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 (Ni13, Pt13) 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.},
	number = {12},
	urldate = {2016-12-08},
	journal = {ACS Nano},
	author = {Zanolli, Zeila and Charlier, J.-C.},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {10786--10791},
}

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