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.
Wang
Jiawei
J
School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK NG7 2RD.
Khlobystov
Andrei N
AN
Wang
Wenxin
W
Howdle
Steven M
SM
Poliakoff
Martyn
M