期刊
CARBON
卷 195, 期 -, 页码 349-363出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2022.03.071
关键词
Carbon nanotubes; Aqueous two-phase sorting; Chirality separation; Surfactant interactions; Bile salts
资金
- European Research Council through an ERC [679841]
- University of Antwerp Research Fund (BOF-DOCPRO4)
- Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO) [G040011N, G02112N, G035918N, G036618N, G0G6218N [EOS-ID 30467715]]
- European Research Council (ERC) [679841] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
In this study, the impact of specific surfactant choice and concentration on ATP sorting was systematically investigated. The results revealed the influence of diameter-dependent stacking pattern on the separation order and the role of cosurfactants. These findings provide insights into predicting the parameters required for separating specific chiral structures in just two ATP steps.
Aqueous two-phase (ATP) extraction has been demonstrated as a fast, scalable, and effective separation technique to sort single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) according to their diameter and chiral structure. The exact mechanism behind the chirality-dependent migration of SWCNTs between the two phases is however not completely understood, and depends on many parameters (e.g., choice of surfactants and their concentration, pH, temperature, ...), making it difficult to optimize the multivariable parameter space. In this work, we present a systematic study of the choice and concentration of specific surfactants on the ATP sorting, by performing a series of single-step ATP separations in which each time only one parameter is systematically varied, while monitoring the structure-specific migration of every SWCNT chirality between both phases with detailed wavelength-dependent spectroscopy. These systematic studies reveal that the diameter-dependent stacking of a discrete number of sodium deoxycholate molecules fitting around the SWCNT circumference determines the separation order in the form of a periodically modulated pattern as a function of SWCNT diameter. Addition of cosurfactants can be used to compete with the bile salt surfactant to enhance the separation yields, but does not affect the sorting order. The results are afterwards directly applied to predict the parameters required to separate specific chiral structures in just two ATP steps. (C) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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