Dissolution of small diameter single-wall carbon nanotubes in organic solvents?

By J. Bahr, E. Mickelson, M. Bronikowski, R. Smalley, James M. Tour. 2001

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Transparent electrodes for organic optoelectronic devices: a review (2014, background): “Therefore, dispersing the CNTs in compatible solvents or obtaining printable inks of CNTs is required for most solution-based deposition techniques.(176) Several studies have shown that unfunctionalized CNTs can be dispersed in some organic solvents, such as chloroform, dichlorobenzene, dimethylform”
A comparative study on the basis of adsorption capacity between CNTs and activated carbon as adsorbents for removal of noxious synthetic dyes: a review (2015, methodology): “To overcome this problem in raw CNTs, different methods of surface modification have been pursued using non-covalent [22] and covalent functionalization [23] strategies.”
NANOTUBES AS POLYMERS (2009, unknown): “Organic solvents such as dimethyl formamide or dichlorobenzene are limited to very low concentration solutions [63].”
Measurement of functionalised carbon nanotube carboxylic acid groups using a simple chemical process (2006, background): “SWNT functionalistion is important for dispersion and solubilisation [ 7 ] and to enable further modification for other uses.”