realize stable aqueous dispersion of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) that is twenty
times more concentrated than when a surfactant is used under the same condition. The
dispersion as well as thin films prepared from it exhibits well-resolved near-infrared
photoluminescence peaks originating from band-gap transitions in semiconducting SWNTs,
a sign of isolated individual tubes. Mechanical stretching of the film strongly aligns the tubes …