Grafting of thermoresponsive polymer from the surface of functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes via atom transfer radical polymerization

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2297-2306

  Xu, GuoYong ^a,b   Xia, Ru ^a   Wang, Hu ^a   Meng, XiangChun ^a   Zhu, QingRen ^c  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Anhui Zhongding Share Co Ltd   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP); Carbon nanotubes; Functional polymer

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749113325     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0317-2     Document Type: Article

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