Polyanionic carbon nanotubes form solutions and obey the physics of polyelectrolytes, report researchers from the University of Bordeaux, France. Their proposed model helps to predict the influence on SWNT solubility of different parameters such as tube diameters, charge density or the solvent.
Damien Voiry, Carlos Drummond and Alain Pénicaud, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 7998-8001. Read for free here until Nov 9.
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