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Grafting Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes with Polystyrene to Enable Self-Assembly and Anisotropic Patchiness
Published on: April 1, 2018
A facile one-step grafting of polyphosphonium onto halloysite nanotubes initiated by Ce(iv)
Hailei Zhang1, Cong Cheng1, Hongzan Song1
1College of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, P. R. China. yqcheng@hbu.edu.cn baxw@hbu.edu.cn wuyonggang@hbu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Polyphosphonium was facilely grafted onto HNTs in an aqueous phase by a one-step method initiated by Ce(iv) at a mild temperature. The modified HNTs were immersed in a sodium alginate solution to achieve a uniform hydrogel that shows desirable antibacterial activity.
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