Functionalized carbon nanotubes: Synthesis, properties and applications in water purification, drug delivery, and material and biomedical sciences

R Dubey, D Dutta, A Sarkar, P Chattopadhyay - Nanoscale Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are considered as one of the ideal materials due to their high
surface area, high aspect ratio, and impressive material properties, such as mechanical …

Chemistry of carbon nanotubes

D Tasis, N Tagmatarchis, A Bianco, M Prato - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
The unidirectional growth of materials to form nanowires or nanotubes has attracted
enormous interest in recent years. Within the different classes of tubes made of organic or …

An aqueous route to multicolor photoluminescent carbon dots using silica spheres as carriers

R Liu, D Wu, S Liu, K Koynov… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon lights up: A facile chemical method yields multicolor photoluminescent carbon dots
derived from polymer/silica nanocomposites, which were prepared using surfactant …

Carbon nanotubes and nanofibers in catalysis

P Serp, M Corrias, P Kalck - Applied Catalysis A: General, 2003 - Elsevier
This review analyses the literature from the early 1990s until the beginning of 2003 and
covers the use of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and nanofibers as catalysts and catalysts …

Cellular uptake of functionalized carbon nanotubes is independent of functional group and cell type

K Kostarelos, L Lacerda, G Pastorin, W Wu… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
The development of nanomaterials for biomedical and biotechnological applications is an
area of research that holds great promise and intense interest, and carbon-based …

Covalent surface chemistry of single‐walled carbon nanotubes

S Banerjee, T Hemraj‐Benny, SS Wong - Advanced materials, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In this review article, we explore covalent chemical strategies for the functionalization of
carbon‐nanotube surfaces. In recent years, nanotubes have been treated as chemical …

Preparation of single-walled carbon nanotube reinforced polystyrene and polyurethane nanofibers and membranes by electrospinning

R Sen, B Zhao, D Perea, ME Itkis, H Hu, J Love… - Nano …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) reinforced polymer composite membranes have
been fabricated using the electrospinning technique. Nanofibers with a diameter in the …

New materials for electrochemical sensing VI: carbon nanotubes

A Merkoçi, M Pumera, X Llopis, B Pérez… - TrAC Trends in …, 2005 - Elsevier
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) combine in a unique way high electrical conductivity, high
chemical stability and extremely high mechanical strength. These special properties of both …

TEMPO in chemical transformations: from homogeneous to heterogeneous

HA Beejapur, Q Zhang, K Hu, L Zhu, J Wang… - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
The organic nitroxyl radical, TEMPO (2, 2, 6, 6-tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl), finds a variety
of industrial applications for chemical transformations. Because of economic and …

Controlled functionalization of multiwalled carbon nanotubes by in situ atom transfer radical polymerization

H Kong, C Gao, D Yan - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2004 - ACS Publications
The in situ ATRP (atom transfer radical polymerization)“grafting from” approach was
successfully applied to graft poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) onto the convex surfaces of …