Carbon nanotube -polymers grafting from" approach

Polymer-grafted Carbon Nanotubes via Grafting From Approach... 

Hijazi, I., et al., Formation of Linear and Hyperbranched Porphyrin Polymers onto Carbon Nanotubes via CuAAC Grafting from" Approach. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012. 22(39) p. 20936. 

Hijazi I, Jousselme B, Jegou P, Filoramo A, Campidelli S (2012) Formation of linear and hyperbranched porphyrin polymers on carbon nanotubes via a CuAAC grafting from approach. J Mater Chem 22(39) 20936-20942... 

To date, they have been synthesized by two pathways (Figure 1.7) (a) the graftin approach, in which preformed polymers are linked to the fullerene unit, and (b) the graft-from approach, in which the polymeric chains grow-up from the surface of properly functionaUzed fullerene-derivatives. Notably, both approaches have also been employed for the covalent functionalization of single-waUed carbon nanotubes (Chapter 12). 

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