Solubilisation of multi walled carbon nanotubes by alpha-pyrene functionalised PMMA and their liquid crystalline self-organisation.
alpha-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.
Meuer
Stefan
S
Institute for Organic Chemistry, University of Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128, Mainz. zentel@uni-mainz.de
Braun
Lydia
L
Zentel
Rudolf
R