Issue 18, 2011

Portrait of carbon nanotube salts as soluble polyelectrolytes

Abstract

Soluble single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) salts have been synthesized with varying negative charges, and their saturation solubilities in DMSO measured. A thermodynamic model of the Gibbs free energy of dissolution, widely used for polyelectrolytes, reproduces the experimental results with striking agreement. SWNT salts appear as a paradigm of stiff polyelectrolytes.

Graphical abstract: Portrait of carbon nanotube salts as soluble polyelectrolytes

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
24 May 2011
Accepted
18 Jul 2011
First published
10 Aug 2011

Soft Matter, 2011,7, 7998-8001

Portrait of carbon nanotube salts as soluble polyelectrolytes

D. Voiry, C. Drummond and A. Pénicaud, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 7998 DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05959A

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