Çaha Ihsan, Ahmad Aqrab Ul, Boddapatti Loukya, Bañobre-López Manuel, Costa António T, Enyashin Andrey N, Li Weibin, Gargiani Pierluigi, Valvidares Manuel, Fernández-Rossier Joaquín, Deepak Francis Leonard
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Avenida Mestre Jose Veiga, Braga, Portugal.
Institute of Solid State Chemistry UB RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation.
Commun Chem. 2025 May 16;8(1):155. doi: 10.1038/s42004-025-01550-x.
The production of single-walled inorganic nanotubes is challenging due to the energetic favorability of multi-walled structures during synthesis. CrI, a layered ferromagnetic insulator, has gained significant attention as the first stand-alone monolayer ferromagnet, sparking interest in two-dimensional magnetic materials. Here, we report the synthesis of high-quality, monolayer CrI nanotubes encapsulated within multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), ranging from 2 to 10 nm with an average diameter of 5.3 nm, as well as a smaller amount of CrI nanorods. Through aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) spectroscopy, and first-principles calculations, we explored the fundamental physics and magnetism of these 1D van der Waals heterostructures. These findings pave the way towards the exploration of non-collinear magnetic states in tubular geometries, driven by the interplay of magnetic anisotropy and curvature.
由于在合成过程中多壁结构在能量上更有利,单壁无机纳米管的制备具有挑战性。CrI是一种层状铁磁绝缘体,作为首个独立的单层铁磁体受到了广泛关注,引发了人们对二维磁性材料的兴趣。在此,我们报告了高质量的单层CrI纳米管的合成,这些纳米管封装在多壁碳纳米管(MWCNTs)中,直径范围为2至10纳米,平均直径为5.3纳米,同时还合成了少量的CrI纳米棒。通过像差校正透射电子显微镜、X射线磁圆二色性(XMCD)光谱和第一性原理计算,我们探索了这些一维范德华异质结构的基本物理性质和磁性。这些发现为在管状几何结构中探索由磁各向异性和曲率相互作用驱动的非共线磁态铺平了道路。