Salting-in effect in organic dispersions of poly(3-hexyl thiophene)-carbon-nanotubes

Autor: Céline Bounioux, Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen, Avraham Bar-Hen
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Chemical Communications. 51:6343-6345
ISSN: 1364-548X
1359-7345
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc00802f
Popis: Addition of small concentrations of different inorganic salts to THF solutions of poly(3-hexyl thiophene), which contain non-dispersed powder of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWNTs), was found to "salt-in" the precipitated tubes leading to the formation of a stable dispersion of the MWNTs. This effect seems to result from a salt-induced conformational change of polymer chains adsorbed onto the CNTs, resulting in the onset of (entropic) steric repulsion among polymer-decorated chains.
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