Dispergation and modification of multi-walled carbon nanotubes in aqueous solution

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• 作者：Chunlai Qu ; Fang Cheng ; Hui Su ; Yang Zhao
• 关键词：multi–walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) ; surfactant ; dispersion ; chemical decoration ; ultraviolet absorbance ; zeta potential ; surface tension ; transmission electron microscopy
• 刊名：Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Focus on Chemistry
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：90
• 期：11
• 页码：2230-2236
• 全文大小：875 KB
• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Chemistry
  Physical Chemistry
  Russian Library of Science
  
• 出版者：MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica distributed exclusively by Springer Science+Business Media LLC.
• ISSN：1531-863X
• 卷排序：90

文摘

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are widely applied in development of composite materials. However, their properties are directly influenced by the degree of uniformity of dispersion of MWCNTs in the material’s matrix. In this paper, the dispersing of raw MWCNTs (R-MWCNTs) and decorated MWCNTs (D-MWCNTs) was studied in aqueous solution. The D-MWCNTs were obtained by chemical modification method by treatment of initial MWCNTs with the mixture of concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids (3: 1 vol/vol). To achieve a good dispersion of the MWCNTs, a method utilizing ultrasonic processing and surfactant (polyvinylpyrrolidone, PVP) was employed. MWCNTs were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT–IR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The prepared MWCNTs suspensions were investigated by UV spectroscopy, zeta potential measurements, surface tension and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The D-MWCNTs have better dispersibility in aqueous solution; this attributed to the functional groups formed on their surface during chemical modification. The PVP surfactant in a certain concentration of 0.6 g/L has the maximum dispersing effect on MWCNTs in aqueous solution, the optimum concentration ratio of PVP and MWCNTs was 3: 1.