| Literature DB >> 12484798 |
Ya-Ping Sun1, Kefu Fu, Yi Lin, Weijie Huang.
Abstract
Carbon nanotubes can be functionalized via amidation and esterification of the nanotube-bound carboxylic acids. The solubility of these functionalized carbon nanotubes makes it possible to characterize and study the properties of carbon nanotubes using solution-based techniques. Representative results concerning the solubility, dispersion, defunctionalization, and optical properties of the functionalized carbon nanotubes are presented. Several examples for the use of functionalized carbon nanotubes in the fabrication of polymeric carbon nanocomposites, the probing of nanotube-molecule interactions, and the conjugation with biological species are highlighted and discussed.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12484798 DOI: 10.1021/ar010160v
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Acc Chem Res ISSN: 0001-4842 Impact factor: 22.384