title: Nanofibrilar polyaniline: direct route to carbon nanotube water dispersions of high concentration.
abstract: Water dispersible nanofibrilar polyaniline (NF-PANI) provides a novel and direct route towards carbon nanotube water dispersions of high concentration. Carrying out the chemical synthesis of NF-PANI in the presence of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) results in an entirely nanostructured nanofibrilar polyaniline/carbon nanotube (NF-PANI/CNT) composite material that contains well segregated CNTs partially coated by NF-PANI. This new approach is simple, fast, and inexpensive, and enables the direct preparation of stable and homogeneous dispersions of the composites in water at concentrations up to 10 mg · mL(-1) , even for the highest CNT loadings of 50 wt.-% without the participation of surfactants or stabilizers.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Carboquímica (CSIC), Department of Nanotechnology, C/Miguel Luesma Castán 4, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jiménez
authors.forename: Wolfgang K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Maser
authors.forename: Pere
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Castell
authors.forename: M Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: Ana M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Benito