The "DiNaMo" UHV Factory equipment has been specially designed for the elaboration under UHV of the 5 levels of interconnection necessary to exchange information with a single molecule or nanoobject. The DUF project was supported by the following...

Peapods are peculiar nano-objects discovered in 1998 (see next image) upon a joint CEMES/University-of-Pennsylvania work (Smith et al., Nature 1998). They are made of a single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) whose the inner cavity is filled with...