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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 120, Issue 18, Pages 10094-10103Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b02198
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- DFG [GRK 1221, INST 93/756-1 FUGG]
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)
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Polymers are widely used for postsynthesis processing, purification, and individualization of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in aqueous or organic solvent environments. Here, the interaction of single-stranded DNA oligomers (ssDNA) and of a polyfluorene copolymer (F8T2) with (6,5) SWNTs was investigated from desorption kinetics and in the case of ssDNA also using adsorption isotherms. Eyring analysis of desorption rate constants reveals a linear increase of activation enthalpies with ssDNA oligomer length until Delta H-des(double dagger) saturates at (155 +/- 5) kJ.mol(-1) for oligomers exceeding the ssDNA Kuhn length of about 6 nm. The Gibbs energy for desorption of Delta(des)G(double dagger) = (96 +/- 1) kJ.mol(-1) is length-independent because of entropy-enthalpy compensation. The saturation of desorption energies at the high polymer coverages studied here is attributed to incomplete adsorption with typically no more than a single Kuhn segment of a polymer attached to a SWNT.
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