Oxford University’s Isis organisation is seeking partners to commercialise research on filling carbon nanotubes with metals and metal compounds. The research comes from Oxford's Department of Inorganic Chemistry.

Oxford University's Isis organisation is seeking partners to commercialise research on filling carbon nanotubes with metals and metal compounds. The research comes from Oxford's Department of Inorganic Chemistry.

The Oxford team has developed a simple and efficient way of opening and filling tubes. In addition, it found that metal salts could be incorporated into the inner body of the tubes forming nanoparticles on reduction.

The filled nanotubes have very interesting magnetic properties and potential for application in many fields. By analogy with shape-selective catalysts such as zeolites, it is envisaged that open buckytubes containing catalyst particles might display useful selectivity by virtue of substrate size discrimination or by virtue of the exposure of only one or two of the possible surfaces of a contained metal crystal.

This discovery has been a granted US patent (No.6090363). Isis Innovation is interested in discussing suitable arrangements with companies that wish to develop and use this technology.

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