Carbon is an element with extremely versatile bonding properties and theoretical
calculations have suggested the possible existence of several hundred structural allotropes …

This article reviews recent advances on the use of Raman spectroscopy to study and
characterize carbon nanostructures. It starts with a brief survey of Raman spectroscopy of …

The use of Raman spectroscopy for carbon nanotube applications is presented here as a
tutorial review. After introducing the relevant basic aspects of Raman spectroscopy of …

We report studies of the temperature dependence of the photoluminescence efficiency of
single walled carbon nanotubes which demonstrate the role of bright and dark excitons. This …

The control of the geometry of carbon nanotubes has a high potential for electro-optical
technology developments. We report here the use of a new spectroscopic signature for the …

The effect of uniaxial strain on the optical transition energies of single-walled carbon
nanotubes with known chiral indices was measured by Rayleigh scattering spectroscopy …

We used simulations with a classical force field to study the transformation under hydrostatic
pressure of isolated single-walled nanotubes (SWNT) from a circular to a collapsed cross …

The high pressure behavior of bundled 1.35±0.1 nm diameter single wall carbon nanotubes
(SWNT) filled with C 70 fullerenes (usually called peapods) has been investigated by …

We report the resonant Raman spectra of individualized (= debundled) single-walled carbon
nanotubes (SWNTs) having diameters d∼ 0.8–1.3 nm subject to compression up to 10.5 …

Carbon nanotubes tend to collapse when their diameters exceed a certain threshold, or
when a sufficiently large external pressure is applied on their walls. The radial stability of …