| Literature DB >> 21069239 |
Shunliu Deng1, Alexandra H Brozena, Yin Zhang, Yanmei Piao, YuHuang Wang.
Abstract
We demonstrate diameter-dependent, progressive alkylcarboxylation of single-walled carbon nanotubes by recycling a modified Billups-Birch reaction. The strong diameter dependence was confirmed by Raman spectroscopy. Alkylcarboxylation made SWNTs soluble in water, allowing the more readily functionalized, smaller diameter nanotubes to be enriched by water extraction.Entities:
Year: 2010 PMID: 21069239 DOI: 10.1039/c0cc03896b
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chem Commun (Camb) ISSN: 1359-7345 Impact factor: 6.222