Selective desorption of high-purity (6,5) SWCNTs from hydrogels through surfactant modulation
Yang Zhao1, Justin G Clar2, Luping Li1
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. kziegler@che.ufl.edu.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 22, 2015
Abstract:
Selective desorption of (6,5) single-wall carbon nanotubes from hydrogels only occurs at specific co-surfactant ratios. High-purity fractions are obtained at this ratio even with long elution times and different total co-surfactant concentrations. These results suggest that each (n,m) type forms a thermodynamically-stable surfactant structure in the co-surfactant solution, enabling high-fidelity separations in a single column.
