Rapid and controllable covalent functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes at room temperature
Yadienka Martínez-Rubí1, Jingwen Guan, Shuqiong Lin
1Molecular and Nanomaterial Architectures Group, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 7, 2007
Abstract:
We report a rapid and efficient procedure to functionalize SWNT where free radicals generated at room temperature by a redox reaction between reduced SWNT and diacyl peroxide derivatives were covalently attached to the SWNT wall.
