Single-walled carbon nanotubes nanocomposites

Du P, Liu S, Wu P et al (2007) Preparation and characterization of room temperature ionic liquid/single walled carbon nanotube nanocomposites and their application to the direct electrochemistry of heme-containing proteins/enzymes. Electrochim Acta 52 6534-6547... 

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J. Al-Hawarin, A.S. Ayesh, and E Yasin, Enhanced physical properties of poly(vinyl alcohol)-based single-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposites through ozone treatment of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 32 (17), 1295-1301, 2013. 

M.D. Bermudez, F.J. Carrion, C. Espejo, E. Martinez-Lopez, J. Sanes, Abrasive wear imder multiscratching of polystyrene + single-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposites Effect of shding direction and modification by ionic liquid. Applied Surfaces Science, 257 (21), 9073-9081, 2011. 

Garcia-Gutierrez MC, Hernandez JJ, Nogales A, Panine P, Rueda DR, Ezquena TA (2008) Influence of shear on the templated laystallization of poly(butylene terephthalate)/single wall carbon nanotube nanocomposites. Macromolecules 41 844—851... 

Sundaray, B., Babu, V.J., Subramanian, V., Natarajan, T.S., 2008. Preparation and characterization of electrospun fibers of poly (methyl methacrylatej-single walled carbon nanotube nanocomposites. J. Eng. Fibers Fabr. 3 (4), 39-45. 

Szymczyk A (2012) Poly(trimethylene lerephthalate-block-tetramethylene oxide) elastomer/ single-walled carbon nanotubes nanocomposites synthesis, structure, and properties. J Appl Polym Sci 126 796-807... 

Shi, X., Sitharaman, B., Pham, Q.P., Liang, F., Wu, K., Billups, W.E., Wilson, L. J., and Mikos, A.G. (2007) Fabrication of porous ultra-short single-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. Biomaterials, 28, 4078- 90. 

Robel, I., Bunker, B. A. and Kamat, P. V. (2005) Single-walled carbon nanotube-CdS nanocomposites as light-harvesting assemblies Photoinduced charge-transfer interactions. Adv. Mater., 17, 2458-22463. 

CNTs may consist of just one layer (i.e. single-walled carbon nanotubes, SWCNTs), two layers (DWCNTs) or many layers (MWCNTs) and per definition exhibit diameters in the range of 0.7 < d < 2 nm, 1 < d < 3 nm, and 1. 4 < d < 150 nm, respectively. The length of CNTs depends on the synthesis technique used (Section 1.1.4) and can vary from a few microns to a current world record of a few cm [16]. This amounts to aspect ratios (i.e. length/diameter) of up to 107, which are considerably larger than those of high-performance polyethylene (PE, Dyneema). The aspect ratio is a crucial parameter, since it affects, for example, the electrical and mechanical properties of CNT-containing nanocomposites. 

B. Sitharaman, X.F. Shi, X.F. Walboomers, H.B. Liao, V. Cuijpers, L.J. Wilson, A.G. Mikos, J.A. Jansen, In vivo biocompatibility of ultra-short single-walled carbon nanotube/biodegradable polymer nanocomposites for, bone tissue engineering, Bone, vol. 43, pp. 362-3Z0, 2008. 

Yao, Z., et al., Polymerization from the surface of single-walled carbon nanotubes -Preparation and characterization of nanocomposites. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2003.125(51) p. 16015-16024. 

Zhan, G.D., Kuntz, J.D., Wan, J. et al., Single-wall carbon nanotubes as attractive toughening agents in alumina-based nanocomposites, Nature Mater, 2003, 2 38. 

SEM image of the fracture surface of 5.7 vol% SWCNT-Fe-Al203 composite densified by spark plasma sintering (SPS) of a mixture of nanometric alumina and ropes of SWCNTs. Reprint from Nature Materials, No. 2, 2002, pp. 38-42, Zhan G.-D., Kuntz J.D., Wan J. and Mukherjee A.K., Single-wall carbon nanotubes as attractive toughening agents in alumina-based nanocomposites, with the permission of Nature Materials and of the authors (http // www.nature.com/nmat/index.html). 

Rul, S., Lefevre-Schlick, F., Capria, E., Laurent, Ch. and Peigney, A., Percolation of single-walled carbon nanotubes in ceramic matrix nanocomposites , Acta Mater. 2004, 52, 1061-1067. 

As another example, Kashiwagi et al.7 have investigated the flammability of polymer/single wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) nanocomposites. It has been observed that in the case where the nanotubes were relatively well-dispersed, a nanotube containing network structured layer was formed without any major cracks or openings during the burning tests and covered the entire... 

Kashiwagi, T., Du, F., Winey, K.I., Groth, K.M., Shields, J.R., Bellayer, S., Kim, S., and Douglas, J.F. 2005. Flammability properties of polymer nanocomposites with single-walled carbon nanotubes Effects of nanotube dispersion and concentration. Polymer 46(2) 471 181. 

A brand new area should conclusively be mentioned, that of the PP-nanocomposites made of single-walled carbon nanotubes [157] or silica nanoparticles [158] which were reported to facilitate the growth of the -crystalline structure. However, no published data support their supposed outstanding performance. 

Haggenmueller R, Zhou W, Fischer JE, Winey KI (2003) Production and characterization of polymer nanocomposites with highly aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes. J Nanosci Nanotechnol 2(1-2) 105-110... 

Y. Ma, S.R. Ali, L. Wang, P.L. Chiu, R. Mendelsohn, and H. He, In situ fabrication of a water-soluble, self-doped polyaniline nanocomposite the unique role of DNA functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 12064—12065 (2006). 

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