A versatile approach to obtain a high-purity semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube dispersion with conjugated
1School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, P. R. China. Zhangsx@sit.edu.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 19, 2015
Abstract:
High-purity semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWCNTs) are urgently needed in the development of beyond-silicon nanoelectronics. The utility of conjugated polymers to assist in the sorting of s-SWCNTs has attracted immense attention due to the simplicity of the sorting process and the high selectivity of conjugated polymers for s-SWCNTs. Rather than developing new types of conjugated polymers, this work provides a versatile and facile route for the sorting of s-SWCNTs with improved purity which is far beyond the sensitivity of a spectrometer.
