Functionalization of carbon nanotubes

A Hirsch, O Vostrowsky - Functional Molecular Nanostructures: -/-, 2005 - Springer
Through functionalization of carbon nanotubes, ie, the attachment of appropriate chemical
functionalities onto their conjugated sp 2 carbon scaffold, the prerequisites for faciliating the …

Raman spectroscopy of covalently functionalized single‐wall carbon nanotubes

R Graupner - Journal of Raman Spectroscopy: An International …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Raman spectroscopy is one of the most extensively employed methods for the
characterization of carbon nanotubes. In this review article, an overview about Raman …

Spontaneous high-concentration dispersions and liquid crystals of graphene

N Behabtu, JR Lomeda, MJ Green… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Graphene combines unique electronic properties and surprising quantum effects with
outstanding thermal and mechanical properties,,,. Many potential applications, including …

Phonons in carbon nanotubes

MS Dresselhaus, PC Eklund - Advances in physics, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
A broad review of the unusual one-dimensional properties of phonons in carbon nanotubes
is presented, including phonons in isolated nanotubes and in crystalline arrays of nanotubes …

Raman and IR spectroscopy of chemically processed single-walled carbon nanotubes

UJ Kim, CA Furtado, X Liu, G Chen… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - ACS Publications
IR and Raman spectroscopy has been used to study the evolution of the vibrational
spectrum of bundled single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) during the purification …

Transparent conductive single-walled carbon nanotube networks with precisely tunable ratios of semiconducting and metallic nanotubes

JL Blackburn, TM Barnes, MC Beard, YH Kim… - ACS …, 2008 - ACS Publications
We present a comprehensive study of the optical and electrical properties of transparent
conductive films made from precisely tuned ratios of metallic and semiconducting single-wall …

Review of the doping of carbon nanotubes (multiwalled and single-walled)

L Duclaux - Carbon, 2002 - Elsevier
Carbon nanotubes can be doped either by electron donors or electron acceptors. After
reaction with host materials, the dopants are intercalated in the intershell spaces of the …

Dissolution of pristine single walled carbon nanotubes in superacids by direct protonation

S Ramesh, LM Ericson, VA Davis… - The Journal of …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Strong tube− tube van der Waal attractions that hinder the dissolution of single walled
carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) as individuals have been overcome by the direct protonation of …

Raman study of multiwalled carbon nanotubes functionalized with oxygen groups

H Murphy, P Papakonstantinou… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
We present changes in the first and second order Raman spectra of multiwalled carbon
nanotubes (MWNTs) functionalized with oxygenated groups. The oxygen groups were …

Single-wall carbon nanotube films

TV Sreekumar, T Liu, S Kumar, LM Ericson… - Chemistry of …, 2003 - ACS Publications
An optically homogeneous solution/dispersion of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in
oleum has been used to form isotropic films exhibiting fibrillar morphology. Tensile modulus …