We have previously devised a “scorpion” like system which is composed of a zigzag (8,0) single walled carbon nanotube attached
to a 20 ringed graphene sheet by a glycine dimer species. Theoretical density functional theory calculations on a potential
mechanism driven by a metal induced charge transfer process has been proposed for the extraction of molecules from nanotubes.
Keywords Polar molecules - Metals - SWNT - Carbon sheet - DFT-BLYP