Issue 27, 2011
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Salting out in organic solvents: a new route to carbon nanotube bundle engineering†

Maxim V. Fedorov,*a   Raz N. Arif,b   Andrey I. Frolov,a   Martin Kolar,bc   Anastasia O. Romanovaa  and  Aleksey G. Rozhin*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
E-mail: fedorov@mis.mpg.de

b School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, UK
E-mail: a.rozhin@aston.ac.uk

c Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic

Abstract

In this study we investigate salt effects on bundle formation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) dispersed in an organic solvent, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP). Addition of NaI salt leads to self-assembly of CNTs into well-recognizable bundles. It is possible to control the size of the CNT bundles by varying the salt concentration.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CP21440C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 May 2011
Accepted
13 May 2011
First published
09 Jun 2011

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011,13, 12399-12402

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Salting out in organic solvents: a new route to carbon nanotube bundle engineering

M. V. Fedorov, R. N. Arif, A. I. Frolov, M. Kolar, A. O. Romanova and A. G. Rozhin, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 12399 DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21440C

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