Nematic Ordering of SWNT in Meso-Structured Thin Liquid Films of Polystyrenesulfonate

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• 作者：Racheli Itzhak-Cohen ; Einat Nativ-Roth ; Yael Levi-Kalisman ; Elinor Josef ; Igal Szleifer ; Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen
• 刊名：Langmuir
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：December 16, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：30
• 期：49
• 页码：14963-14970
• 全文大小：559K
• ISSN：1520-5827

文摘

The formation of nematic-like islands of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) in polystyrenesulfonate (PSS) dispersions confined into nanometrically thin films is reported. The SWNT are observed to assemble into orientationally ordered phases, where the intertube distance, as measured via transmission electron microscopy at cryogenic temperatures, matches the polyelectrolyte鈥檚 bulk correlation length deduced from X-ray scattering. The micrometers-long islands of orientationally ordered carbon nanotubes are observed in both SWNT and double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNT) but not in specimens prepared from similar dispersions of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNT). These observations, together with relaxation and rheological experiments, suggest that the orientational ordering may result from coupling between confinement of the polymer-wrapped SWNT and DWNT and the microstructure of the solvated polyelectrolyte.