Polymer grafting to single-walled carbon nanotubes: Effect of chain length on solubility, graft density and mechanical properties of macroscopic structures

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Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 552-560

  Chadwick, Ryan C ^a   Khan, Umar ^b   Coleman, Jonathan N ^b   Adronov, Alex ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

functionalization; graft density; grafting; polymers; single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

CHAIN PACKING; COIL SIZES; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED NANOTUBES; GRAFT DENSITY; GRAFTED CHAINS; MACROSCOPIC STRUCTURE; NANOTUBE FILMS; NANOTUBE SURFACE; POLYMER GRAFTING; POLYSTYRENE CHAINS; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; RANDOM WALK CONFORMATION;

CHAIN LENGTH; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOTUBES; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEPARATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS;

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL);

CARBON NANOTUBE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; SOLUBILITY;

MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POLYMERS; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84874046544     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201201683     Document Type: Article

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