Scalable method for the reductive dissolution, purification, and separation of single-walled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 54-62

  Fogden, Siân ^a   Howard, Christopher A ^b   Heenan, Richard K ^c   Skipper, Neal T ^b   Shaffer, Milo S P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

nanotubide; purification; reductive dissolution; separation; single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

APROTIC; CARBONACEOUS IMPURITIES; IN-SITU; METALLIC NANOTUBES; NANOTUBIDE; NEW MECHANISMS; OPTOELECTRONIC CHARACTERISTICS; OXIDATION REACTIONS; PURIFICATION METHOD; REDUCTIVE DISSOLUTION; SCALABLE METHODS; SELECTIVE DISSOLUTION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; SOLUBLE FRACTION; SPECTROSCOPY DATA; SWNT DISPERSIONS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; CENTRIFUGATION; DISPERSIONS; DISSOLUTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PURIFICATION; SCALABILITY; SEPARATION; SODIUM;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FRACTIONATION; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84856187973     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2041494     Document Type: Article

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