Polysiloxane surfactants for the dispersion of carbon nanotubes in non-polar organic solvents

Details Polysiloxane surfactants for the dispersion of carbon nanotubes in non-polar organic solvents Polysiloxane surfactants for the dispersion of carbon nanotubes in non-polar organic solvents

2009-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/0907.3175v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

to appear in: Langmuir 2009

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We develop two new amphiphilic molecules that are shown to act as efficient surfactants for carbon nanotubes in non-polar organic solvents. The active conjugated groups, which are highly attracted to graphene nanotube surface, are based on pyrene and porphyrin. We show that relatively short (C18) carbon tails are insufficient to provide stabilization. As our ultimate aim is to disperse and stabilize nanotubes in siloxane matrix (polymer and crosslinked elastomer), both surfactant molecules were made with long siloxane tails to facilitate solubility and steric stabilization. We show that pyrene-siloxane surfactant is very effective in dispersing multi-wall nanotubes, while the porphyrin-siloxane is making single-wall nanotubes soluble, both in petroleum ether and in siloxane matrix.

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