Angle-controlled arrangement of single-walled carbon nanotubes solubilised by 8-quinolinol metal chelate derivatives on mica

Kazuyuki Nobusawa; Atsushi Ikeda; Yasunori Tanaka; Mineo Hashizume; Jun-ichi Kikuchi; Michihiro Shirakawa; Tatsuya Kitahara; Norifumi Fujita; Seiji Shinkai

doi:10.1039/b715960a

Angle-controlled arrangement of single-walled carbon nanotubes solubilised by 8-quinolinol metal chelate derivatives on mica

Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Apr 21:(15):1801-3. doi: 10.1039/b715960a. Epub 2008 Feb 26.

Authors

Kazuyuki Nobusawa¹, Atsushi Ikeda, Yasunori Tanaka, Mineo Hashizume, Jun-ichi Kikuchi, Michihiro Shirakawa, Tatsuya Kitahara, Norifumi Fujita, Seiji Shinkai

Affiliation

¹ Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan.

PMID: 18379698
DOI: 10.1039/b715960a

Abstract

We solubilised SWNTs of short length using a mechanochemical high-speed vibration milling (HSVM) through formation of complexes between the SWNTs and chelate complexes; the mixture formed a network structure on mica.