Solubilisation of multi walled carbon nanotubes by α-pyrene functionalised PMMA and their liquid crystalline self-organisation
- 7 May 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 27,p. 3166-3168
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b803099e
Abstract
α-Pyrene functionalised poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) chains were synthesised by RAFT polymerisation and found to be highly efficient to solubilise and disentangle multi walled carbon nanotubes that can now self-organise as liquid crystalline phases in PMMA and PEG 400 matrices.Keywords
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