Nie, Haiyu and Guo, Wei and Yuan, Yuan and Dou, Zengpei and Shi, Zujin and Liu, Zhen and Wang, Haifang and Liu, Yuanfang (2009) PEGylation of double-walled carbon nanotubes for increasing their solubility in water. Nano Research, 3 (2). pp. 103-109.
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Abstract
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) functionalized double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) have been synthesized by a [2 + 1] cycloaddition reaction and characterized by transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, thermal gravimetric analysis, and UV-visible spectroscopy. Functionalization affords a large increase in the aqueous solubility of DWNTs. The saturated concentrations of DWNTs functionalized with diazido-terminated PEG800 (with a molecular weight of 800) and azido-terminated PEG750 monomethylether (with a molecular weight of 750) are very similar—0.36 and 0.37 mg/mL (DWNTs equivalent concentration), respectively.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Physical Science > Nanophysics Physical Science > Nano objects Material Science > Nanochemistry Material Science > Nanostructured materials |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Physics Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Chemistry |
| ID Code: | 8314 |
| Deposited By: | JNCASR |
| Deposited On: | 05 Oct 2010 09:42 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2010 09:42 |
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