Arrangement of palladium nanoparticles templated by supramolecular self-assembly of SDS wrapped on single-walled carbon nanotubes

Zhenquan Tan; Hiroya Abe; Makio Naito; Satoshi Ohara

doi:10.1039/c0cc00099j

Arrangement of palladium nanoparticles templated by supramolecular self-assembly of SDS wrapped on single-walled carbon nanotubes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Jun 28;46(24):4363-5. doi: 10.1039/c0cc00099j. Epub 2010 May 13.

Authors

Zhenquan Tan¹, Hiroya Abe, Makio Naito, Satoshi Ohara

Affiliation

¹ Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, 11-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan. zq-tan@jwri.osaka-u.ac.jp

PMID: 20467658
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc00099j

Abstract

We report a facile route to selectively deposit and arrange palladium (Pd) nanoparticles on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) having sub 10 nm diameter by using supramolecular self-assembly of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as a soft template.