Nanofibrilar Polyaniline: Direct Route to Carbon Nanotube Water Dispersions of High Concentration

✍ Scribed by Pablo Jiménez; Wolfgang K. Maser; Pere Castell; M. Teresa Martínez; Ana M. Benito

• Book ID: 102491764
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 301 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1336
• DOI: 10.1002/marc.200800707

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Water dispersible nanofibrilar polyaniline (NF‐PANI) provides a novel and direct route towards carbon nanotube water dispersions of high concentration. Carrying out the chemical synthesis of NF‐PANI in the presence of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) results in an entirely nanostructured nanofibrilar polyaniline/carbon nanotube (NF‐PANI/CNT) composite material that contains well segregated CNTs partially coated by NF‐PANI. This new approach is simple, fast, and inexpensive, and enables the direct preparation of stable and homogeneous dispersions of the composites in water at concentrations up to 10 mg · mL^−1^, even for the highest CNT loadings of 50 wt.‐% without the participation of surfactants or stabilizers.

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