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Grafting Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes with Polystyrene to Enable Self-Assembly and Anisotropic Patchiness
Published on: April 1, 2018
Self-assembly of carbon nanotube polyhedrons inside microchannels
Jiangying Qu1, Zongbin Zhao, Jieshan Qiu
1Carbon Research Laboratory, Center for Nano Materials and Science, State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, China.
Abstract:
Well-defined carbon polyhedrons with faceted morphologies and hollow internal structures made of self-organized multi-walled carbon nanotubes have been fabricated by gas phase catalytic CVD inside microchannels, of which the confined space is critical for the formation of polyhedral structures with hexagonal, heptagonal and octagonal cross-sections that show superhydrophobic properties, with the contact angle up to 162 degrees .

