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Grafting Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes with Polystyrene to Enable Self-Assembly and Anisotropic Patchiness
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Solubilisation of multi walled carbon nanotubes by alpha-pyrene functionalised PMMA and their liquid crystalline
Stefan Meuer1, Lydia Braun, Rudolf Zentel
1Institute for Organic Chemistry, University of Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128, Mainz. zentel@uni-mainz.de
Abstract:
alpha-Pyrene functionalised poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) chains were synthesised by RAFT polymerisation and found to be highly efficient to solubilise and disentangle multi walled carbon nanotubes that can now self-organise as liquid crystalline phases in PMMA and PEG 400 matrices.
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