Coating carbon nanotubes with polymer in supercritical carbon dioxide.
A facile and efficient method has been developed for coating MWNTs with solvent resistant polymer in scCO2, which permits the selective deposition of high molecular weight fluorinated graft poly(methyl vinyl ether-alt-maleic anhydride) polymer onto MWNTs in scCO2 under 100-170 bar at 40 degrees C and forms quasi one-dimensional nanostructures with conducting cores and insulating surfaces.
School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK NG7 2RD.
Jiawei
J
Wang
Andrei N
AN
Khlobystov
Wenxin
W
Wang
Steven M
SM
Howdle
Martyn
M
Poliakoff