TY - JOUR
T1 - Efficient coating of N-doped carbon nanotubes with polystyrene using atomic transfer radical polymerization
AU - Fragneaud, Benjamin
AU - Masenelli-Varlot, Karine
AU - Gonzalez-Montiel, Alfonso
AU - Terrones, Mauricio
AU - Cavaillé, Jean Yves
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the Programa Cooperativo de Posgrado (PCP) between IPICYT and INSA-Lyon for financial support. B.F. thanks IPICYT and CID for Ph.D. scholarship and complementary financial support respectively. We are grateful to H. Terrones, A.L. Elías, J.A. Rodríguez-Manzo, A. Zamudio, D. Ramírez and L. Noyola for providing nanotube samples. We also thank CONACYT-México for financial support Grants: 45762 (M.T.), 41464-Inter American Collaboration (M.T.), 2004-01-013/SALUD-CONACYT (M.T.) and PUE-2004-CO2-9 Fondo Mixto.
PY - 2006/2/26
Y1 - 2006/2/26
N2 - We describe an efficient and novel route to graft covalently polystyrene (PS) on the external layers of nitrogen-doped multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNx MWNTs) using atomic transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). The doped tubes did not require any acid treatment prior to the ATRP reaction. Samples were characterized using FTIR, thermogravimetric analyses, high resolution transmission microscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS). All the tubes were coated with a uniform layer of PS (3-5 nm thick). These grafted tubes could behave as efficient fillers in the manufacture of reinforced polymers exhibiting outstanding mechanical properties.
AB - We describe an efficient and novel route to graft covalently polystyrene (PS) on the external layers of nitrogen-doped multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNx MWNTs) using atomic transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). The doped tubes did not require any acid treatment prior to the ATRP reaction. Samples were characterized using FTIR, thermogravimetric analyses, high resolution transmission microscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS). All the tubes were coated with a uniform layer of PS (3-5 nm thick). These grafted tubes could behave as efficient fillers in the manufacture of reinforced polymers exhibiting outstanding mechanical properties.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cplett.2005.12.011
DO - 10.1016/j.cplett.2005.12.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:32344432927
SN - 0009-2614
VL - 419
SP - 567
EP - 573
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
IS - 4-6
ER -