Journal
CARBON
Volume 44, Issue 15, Pages 3328-3335Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.06.009
Keywords
carbon nanotubes; chemical treatment; transmission electron microscopy; chemical structure
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Iron-filled multi-walled carbon nanotubes (Fe@MWCNTs) were surface functionalized with various functionalities via a rapid, single-step process involving ultrasonication assisted and microwave-induced radical polymerization reactions. Both hydrophobic (e.g., polystyrenes and polymethyl methacrylate) and hydrophilic (e.g., polyacrylamide, polyacrylic acids, and polyallyl alcohols) polymer chains can be chemically grafted onto the surface of MWCNTs by the same process within similar to 10 min. The surface grafted polymers were identified by FTIR, TGA, TEM, EELS and Raman spectra. The solubilities of the surface derivatized MWCNTs are in the range of 1200-2800 mg/l in solutions. The polyacrylic acids modified iron filled MWCNTs have a saturated magnetic dipole moment of similar to 40 emu/g at room temperature with a coerceive field of nearly zero gauss. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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