Removal of amorphous carbon for the efficient sidewall functionalisation of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Lidong Shao1, Gerard Tobias, Christoph G Salzmann
1Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK OX1 3QR.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 1, 2007
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.
