Abstract Submitted to the NANOTUBE'02 Workshop:

The concave inside of single wall nanotubes represents a challenging nanospace for new physical processes and new chemical reactions. In contrast to the concave nanospace inside the fullerenes this space allows much easier access for preparation and for analysis. We investigated this space by studying the properties of fullerenes inside single wall carbon nanotubes (peapods). Tubes with different diameters and different degrees of filling will be analyzed. Symmetry breaking as a consequence of the reduced point symmetry, interaction and hybridization of molecular orbitals, electron phonon interaction and charge transfer induced polymerization will be demonstrated and discussed. In addition to the analysis of the peapods a theoretical and experimental study of tubes filled with a concentric second tube will be presented.