Effect of polymer chain length on the solubility of polystyrene grafted single-walled carbon nanotubes in tetrahydrofuran

Polymer International

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1007-1011

  Homenick, Christa M ^a   Sivasubramaniam, Umakanthan ^a   Adronov, Alex ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Functionalization; Polystyrene; Solubility; Stable free radical polymerization

Indexed keywords

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; POLYMERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLUBILITY; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALIZATION; COVALENT GRAFTING; FUNCTIONALIZATION; NANO TUBE; NANOTUBE SURFACES; NITROXIDE; PHASE PROCESSING; POLYMER CHAIN LENGTH; POLYMER MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYSTYRENE; POLYSTYRENE POLYMERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; STABLE FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; TETRA-HYDROFURAN; WIDESPREAD APPLICATIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

NANOTUBE; POLYSTYRENE; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 48549094716     PISSN: 09598103     EISSN: 10970126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pi.2439     Document Type: Article

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