The Louvain-la-Neuve group are specialised in theoretical modelling at the atomic scale of the metal nanoparticles on the carbon nanotube surfaces, and in particular how electronic charge passes through the tubes in this case.
 

 
 

Links To Other Information:

Nano2hybrids Site
View video diaries and other project information.

The PCPM Group
The PCPM group page on the nano2hybrids site

Face-to-Face Interview with Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn, the inventor of "density functional theory", the technique used by the LLN group.

The Next Big Thing Nanotechnology
Link to Vega Science/BBC OU Discussion on Nanotechnology.

Nanotubes: Materials of the 21st Century
Link to a Royal Institution Lecture by Sumio Iijima.