Chemistry of carbon nanotubes

T Lin, V Bajpai, T Ji, L Dai - Australian journal of chemistry, 2003 - CSIRO Publishing
Judicious application of site-selective reactions to non-aligned and aligned carbon
nanotubes has opened a rich field of carbon nanotube chemistry. In order to meet specific …

Solubilization of carbon nanotubes by Nafion toward the preparation of amperometric biosensors

J Wang, M Musameh, Y Lin - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2003 - ACS Publications
The ability to solubilize single-wall and multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNT) in the presence of
the perfluorinated polymer Nafion is described. Such use of Nafion as a solubilizing agent …

Improving the dispersion and integration of single-walled carbon nanotubes in epoxy composites through functionalization

J Zhu, JD Kim, H Peng, JL Margrave… - Nano …, 2003 - ACS Publications
Considerable improvement in the dispersion of purified single-walled carbon nanotubes
(SWNTs) in an epoxy composite was obtained through functionalization of the SWNTs by …

Sidewall carboxylic acid functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes

H Peng, LB Alemany, JL Margrave… - Journal of the …, 2003 - ACS Publications
The reactions of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with succinic or glutaric acid acyl
peroxides in o-dichlorobenzene at 80− 90° C resulted in the addition of 2-carboxyethyl or 3 …

Soluble carbon nanotubes

D Tasis, N Tagmatarchis… - … –A European Journal, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon nanotubes have attracted great interdisciplinary interest because of their unique
structure and properties. However, carbon‐nanotube research is challenged by several …

Polymeric carbon nanocomposites from carbon nanotubes functionalized with matrix polymer

Y Lin, B Zhou, KA Shiral Fernando, P Liu… - …, 2003 - ACS Publications
Single-walled and multiple-walled carbon nanotubes were functionalized with poly (vinyl
alcohol)(PVA) in esterification reactions. Similar to the parent PVA, the functionalized carbon …

Sidewall amino-functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes through fluorination and subsequent reactions with terminal diamines

JL Stevens, AY Huang, H Peng, IW Chiang… - Nano Letters, 2003 - ACS Publications
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with the N-alkylidene amino groups covalently
attached to their side walls have been prepared starting from colloidal solutions of …

Tethered nano building blocks: Toward a conceptual framework for nanoparticle self-assembly

Zhang, MA Horsch, MH Lamm, SC Glotzer - Nano letters, 2003 - ACS Publications
We perform molecular simulations to study the self-assembly of nanoparticles functionalized
with oligomeric tethers attached to specific locations on the nanoparticle surface. We …

Well-aligned polyaniline/carbon-nanotube composite films grown by in-situ aniline polymerization

W Feng, XD Bai, YQ Lian, J Liang, XG Wang… - Carbon, 2003 - Elsevier
Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) encapsulated by polyaniline (PANI) of nanometer
size have been synthesized by in-situ polymerization, and are found to be orientationally …

Covalent coupling of quantum dots to multiwalled carbon nanotubes for electronic device applications

S Ravindran, S Chaudhary, B Colburn, M Ozkan… - Nano Letters, 2003 - ACS Publications
We report the controlled synthesis of multiwalled carbon nanotube− quantum dot (CNT-QD)
heterojunctions using the ethylene carbodiimide coupling procedure (EDC). Thiol-stabilized …