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Simultaneous Synthesis of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene in a Magnetically-enhanced Arc Plasma
Published on: February 2, 2012
Discrete dispersion of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Qingwen Li1, Ian A Kinloch, Alan H Windle
1Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, UK CB2 3QZ.
Abstract:
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been effectively wetted and dispersed in saturated sodium hydroxide (NaOH) alcohol-water solutions with little surface damage or shortening of the tubes; the treated material was dissolvable as individual tubes in many common organic solvents.

