Removal of amorphous carbon for the efficient sidewall functionalisation of single-walled carbon nanotubes
- 5 October 2007
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 47,p. 5090-5092
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b712614j
Abstract
The sidewall functionalisation of carbon nanotubes using the standard nitric acid treatment can be greatly enhanced by first removing the amorphous carbon present in the sample.Keywords
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