CHEMICAL DERIVATIZATION OF SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBE TO FACILITATE SOLVATION THEREOF; AND USE OF DERIVATIZED NANOTUBE

• Main Authors: MARGRAVE JOHN L, BOUL PETER, HUFFMAN CHAD B, LIU JIE, SMITH KEN, SMALLEY RICHARD E, MICKELSON EDWARD T, COLBERT DANIEL T, HAUGE ROBERT
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.09.2011
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBONFILAMENTS; CHEMICAL FEATURES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS,THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; INORGANIC CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY; NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL THREADS OR FIBRES; NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; SPINNING; TEXTILES; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for derivatizing carbon nanotubes, especially the side walls of single-wall carbon nanotubes. SOLUTION: There provided is a method for preparing single wall carbon nanotubes having substituents attached to the nanotube by reacting single wall carbon nanotube...