Ultra-fast and scalable sidewall functionalisation of single-walled carbon nanotubes with carboxylic acid

Chemical Communications

Volumn , Issue 24, 2008, Pages 2788-2790

  Long, Brenda ^a   Wu, Tan Man ^a   Stellacci, Francesco ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID; DODECYLAMINE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; SOLUBILITY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 45149090690     PISSN: 13597345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b719380g     Document Type: Article

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