Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes with Polystyrene

By D. E. Hill, Yi Lin, Apparao M. Rao, L. Allard, Ya‐Ping Sun. 2002

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics

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Review of the mechanical properties of carbon nanofiber/polymer composites (2011, neutral): “In addition, some processing aids can be used to enhance the dispersion and/or alignment of VGCNFs such as sonication [57], surfactants [58], nanofiller functionalization or grafting [59,60] and magnetic fields [61].”
Carbon nanotube reinforced polymer composites—A state of the art (2007, methodology): “Both SWNTs and MWNTs were solubilized by functionalizing with a polystyrene copolymer (Hill et al 2002).”
The present status and key problems of carbon nanotube based polymer composites (2007, methodology): “To date, various composite materials have been prepared by incorporating SWNTs or MWNTs into a metal matrix [9–12], a ceramic matrix [13–16] or a polymer matrix [17–33].”
Mechanical and morphological characterization of polymer–carbon nanocomposites from functionalized carbon nanotubes (2004, background): “The films thus obtained were found to have excellent optical quality, and were free of any significant nanotube aggregation effects [9].”
Effect of carbon nanotubes on mechanical and electrical properties of polyimide/carbon nanotubes nanocomposites (2007, background): “The chemical modification of the nanotubes is one of the most important approaches to overcome these problems [12,13].”
Reinforcement mechanisms in MWCNT-filled polycarbonate (2006, background): “Thus, a number of researchers are investigating both covalent and non-covalent surface modifications of the nanotubes to enhance the efficiency of load transfer to the nanotubes [22–28].”
Low percolation threshold in single-walled carbon nanotube/high density polyethylene composites prepared by melt processing technique (2006, background): “The solubilized carbon nanotubes, especially those from the polymer furnctionalization, are important to the preparation of polymeric carbon composites [16–18].”