Why single-walled carbon nanotubes can be dispersed in imidazolium-based ionic liquids

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2540-2546

  Wang, Jinyong ^a   Chu, Haibin ^a   Li, Yan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

stacking; Imidazolium; Ionic liquids; IR; Raman spectra; Single walled carbon nanotubes; Van der Waals interaction

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FLOW INTERACTIONS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; IONS; LIQUIDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; POSITIVE IONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

DISPERSION MECHANISMS; HIGH DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; IMIDAZOLIUM; IMIDAZOLIUM CATIONS; IMIDAZOLIUM-BASED IONIC LIQUIDS; INTERFACIAL EFFECTS; INTRINSIC PROPERTIES; IR; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; LOCAL STRUCTURES; MOLECULAR MODELING STUDIES; RAMAN SPECTRA; STACKING INTERACTIONS; STUDY AND APPLICATIONS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTION;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; IONIC LIQUID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

IMIDAZOLES; IONIC LIQUIDS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 58149171778     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800510g     Document Type: Article

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