High-Yield Synthesis and Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotube Porins
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- 作者：Ramya H. Tunuguntla ; Xi Chen ; Allison Belliveau ; Frances I. Allen ; Aleksandr Noy
- 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry C
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 9, 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：121
- 期：5
- 页码：3117-3125
- 全文大小：480K
- ISSN：1932-7455
文摘
Carbon nanotube porins (CNTPs) are a convenient membrane-based model system for studying nanofluidic transport that replicates a number of key structural features of biological membrane channels. We present a generalized approach for CNTP synthesis using sonochemistry-assisted segmenting of carbon nanotubes. Prolonged tip sonication in the presence of lipid molecules debundles and fragments long carbon nanotube aggregates into stable and water-soluble individual CNTPs with lengths in the range 5–20 nm. We discuss the main parameters that determine the efficiency and the yield of this process, describe the optimized conditions for high-yield CNTP synthesis, and demonstrate that this methodology can be adapted for synthesis of CNTPs of different diameters. We also present the optical properties of CNTPs and show that a combination of Raman and UV–vis–NIR spectroscopy can be used to monitor the quality of the CNTP synthesis. Overall, CNTPs represent a versatile nanopore building block for creating higher-order functional biomimetic materials.