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Chemical Communications

Direct imaging of carbon nanotubes spontaneously filled with solvent†

Micah J. Green,‡a   Colin C. Young,a   A. Nicholas G. Parra-Vasquez,§a   Mainak Majumder,a   Varun Juloori,a   Natnael Behabtu,a   Cary L. Pint,b   Judith Schmidt,c   Ellina Kesselman,c   Robert H. Hauge,b   Yachin Cohen,c   Yeshayahu Talmon*c  and  Matteo Pasquali*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, USA
E-mail: mp@rice.edu

b Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, USA

c Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
E-mail: ishi@tx.technion.ac.il

Abstract

For the first time, cryo-TEM imaging is used to directly show spontaneous filling of carbon nanotubes immersed in a solvent in the native state at ambient conditions. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes are dissolved in chlorosulfonic acid, and the high contrast between the acid and the carbon shows the difference between filled and unfilled nanotubes.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC03915B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 Sep 2010
Accepted
03 Nov 2010
First published
23 Nov 2010

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 1228-1230

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Direct imaging of carbon nanotubes spontaneously filled with solvent

M. J. Green, C. C. Young, A. N. G. Parra-Vasquez, M. Majumder, V. Juloori, N. Behabtu, C. L. Pint, J. Schmidt, E. Kesselman, R. H. Hauge, Y. Cohen, Y. Talmon and M. Pasquali, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 1228 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03915B

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