Pyrene-conjugated hyaluronan facilitated exfoliation and stabilisation of low dimensional nanomaterials in water

Fei Zhang; Xianjue Chen; Ramiz A Boulos; Faizah Md Yasin; Haibo Lu; Colin Raston; Hongbin Zhang

doi:10.1039/c3cc41973h

Pyrene-conjugated hyaluronan facilitated exfoliation and stabilisation of low dimensional nanomaterials in water

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 May 25;49(42):4845-7. doi: 10.1039/c3cc41973h.

Authors

Fei Zhang¹, Xianjue Chen, Ramiz A Boulos, Faizah Md Yasin, Haibo Lu, Colin Raston, Hongbin Zhang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.

PMID: 23598776
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc41973h

Abstract

Pyrene-conjugated hyaluronan (Py-HA) facilitates the exfoliation of low-dimensional nanomaterials including graphite, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), and the dispersion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and carbon nano-onions (CNOs) in water (and PBS solutions), with the assistance of sonication.