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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Hydrothermal treatment to prepare hydroxyl group modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Dong Yang,a   Guiquan Guo,a   Jianhua Hu,a   Changchun Wang*a  and  Donglin Jiang*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers (Ministry of Education) and Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
E-mail: ccwang@fudan.edu.cn

b PRESTO, JST and Institute for Molecular Science, 5-1 Higashiyama, Okazaki 444-8787, Japan
E-mail: jiang@ims.ac.jp

Abstract

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) bearing hydroxyl groups (MWNTols) on the exterior surface have been synthesized by an alkaline-mediated hydrothermal treatment of MWNTs under autogenous pressure at 180 °C. X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy shows that the content of hydroxyl groups increases with the concentration of sodium hydroxide utilized. FT-IR spectroscopy shows that hemiketals were incorporated into the structure of MWNTols. The prepared MWNTols are highly soluble in polar solvents such as water, methanol, butanone and tetrahydrofuran, to give robust stable black solutions. Transmission electron microscopy reveals that the diameter, length and morphology of MWNTs are well retained in MWNTols. MWNTols are redox active on their exterior surface, where hydroxyl groups, upon reaction with Ce(IV) ions, transform to radical species and initiate polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM).

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B713467C
Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Sep 2007
Accepted
06 Nov 2007
First published
22 Nov 2007

J. Mater. Chem., 2008,18, 350-354

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Hydrothermal treatment to prepare hydroxyl group modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes

D. Yang, G. Guo, J. Hu, C. Wang and D. Jiang, J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18, 350 DOI: 10.1039/B713467C

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