Authors:
Dr. Kaladhar Kamalasanan, Dr. Riccardo Gottardi, Dr. Susheng Tan, Dr. Yanan Chen, Dr. Bhaskar Godugu, Dr. Sam Rothstein, Dr. Anna C. Balazs, Dr. Alexander Star, and Dr. Steven R. Little
Summary:
The shorter, the more dispersible: An iterative, emulsion-based shortening technique has been used to reduce the length of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to the same order of magnitude as their diameter (ca. 1 nm), thus achieving an effectively “zero-dimensional” structure with improved dispersibility and, after hydroxylation, long-term water solubility. Finally, zero-dimensional SWNTs were positively identified using mass spectrometry for the first time.
Source:
Angewandte Chemie; Volume 125, Issue 43, pages 11518–11522, October 18, 2013