Individually suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes in various surfactants

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Year: 2003
Type of Publication: Article
Authors:
  • V. C. Moore, E. H. Haroz M. S. Strano
Journal: Nano Letters Volume: 3
Number: 10 Pages: 1379-1382
Month: OCT 2003
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PT: J; TC: 833; UT: WOS:000185863500012
Abstract:
Individual single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been suspended in aqueous media using various anionic, cationic, nonionic surfactants and polymers. The surfactants are compared with respect to their ability to suspend individual SWNTs and the quality of the absorption and fluorescence spectra. For the ionic surfactants, sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (SDBS) gives the most well resolved spectral features. For the nonionic systems, surfactants with higher molecular weight suspend more SWNT material and have more pronounced spectral features.