Solubility of nanotubes

[arauca]

Are nanotubes solubles or are they dispersible

 

Nanotubes with functional groups are soluble . example nanotubes with hydroxy group attached , are they soluble .

 

Thank you .

[CharonY]

Do you mean carbon nanotubes? Unmodified they are pretty much insoluble. Dispersion The simplest way to disperse them is prolonged sonication, Depending on length it may not be very effective, however.

[arauca]

Do you mean carbon nanotubes? Unmodified they are pretty much insoluble. Dispersion The simplest way to disperse them is prolonged sonication, Depending on length it may not be very effective, however.

I understand the carbon nanotube are insoluble , I have been told the amophous graphite is soluble in hot toluene , but I am not sure of that

Now I am interested in carbon nanotube with hydroxy functionality, I might agree with you they might not be soluble but dispersible . I would like some sugestion if the tubes could be sepparated

from amorphous graphite by preferentioal solvent ?

[CharonY]

With regards to hydroxylation: hydroxylated multiwalled carbon nanotubes have been shown to be soluble in water with up to about 1 mg/ml. For single-walled I read up to 8 or 9, but I forgot whether they used hydroxylation or any other functionalization.

I still do not fully understand your question though. Do you need a method to enrich nanotubes? If that is the question I would do a specific search for this in the literature because there are a lot of different approaches for that including phase-separation techniques. But I do not know the lit off the top of my head.

[arauca]

With regards to hydroxylation: hydroxylated multiwalled carbon nanotubes have been shown to be soluble in water with up to about 1 mg/ml. For single-walled I read up to 8 or 9, but I forgot whether they used hydroxylation or any other functionalization.

I still do not fully understand your question though. Do you need a method to enrich nanotubes? If that is the question I would do a specific search for this in the literature because there are a lot of different approaches for that including phase-separation techniques. But I do not know the lit off the top of my head.

 

It is interesting to me , the solubility of Hydroxylated multywalled carbon nanotube , I deffinitively would like to see this literature , I am not challenging I just like to be assured , because I will be trying to sepparate , some of the functional tubes from graphite .

Thank you kindly

My son is ttying to produce some and I will have to help him to sepparate the tubes (SWHC)