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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 118, Issue 8, Pages 4489-4494Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp411941k
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1112374]
- Welch Foundation [C-0807]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1112374] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Purification of raw single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) material remains an important challenge in nanotube research and applications. We describe here a simple but effective purification method that uses permanent magnets to remove many nanotube aggregates, as well as residual metallic catalyst, from aqueous suspensions of surfactant-coated SWCNTs. Samples have been characterized by optical absorption, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopies; atomic force microscopy and near-infrared fluorescence microscopy; and thermogravimetric analysis. It is found that magnetic purification reduces absorption backgrounds and increases average fluorescence efficiencies to levels comparable to those in ultracentrifuged samples. The ratio of individualized SWCNTs to aggregates in magnetically processed HiPco samples is estimated to be approximately 4:1. As compared to ultracentrifugation, magnetic processing promises major advantages in cost, simplicity, energy consumption, and scalability.
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