Length-Dependent Extraction of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
- 25 November 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Nano Letters
- Vol. 5 (12), 2355-2359
- https://doi.org/10.1021/nl0510208
Abstract
A two-phase liquid-liquid extraction process is presented which is capable of extracting water-soluble single-walled carbon nanotubes into an organic phase. The extraction utilizes electrostatic interactions between a common phase transfer agent and the sidewall functional groups on the nanotubes. Large length-dependent van der Waals forces for nanotubes allow the ability to control the length of nanotubes extracted into the organic phase as demonstrated by atomic force microscopy.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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