Salting out in organic solvents : a new route to carbon nanotube bundle engineering

Fedorov, Maxim V. and Arif, Raz N. and Frolov, Andrey I. and Kolar, Martin and Romanova, Anastasia O. and Rozhin, Aleksey G. (2011) Salting out in organic solvents : a new route to carbon nanotube bundle engineering. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13 (27). pp. 12399-12402. ISSN 1463-9084 (https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cp21440c)

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Abstract

In this study we investigate salt effects on bundle formation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) dispersed in an organic solvent, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP). Addition of NaI salt leads to self-assembly of CNTs into well-recognizable bundles. It is possible to control the size of the CNT bundles by varying the salt concentration.