A Comprehensive Review on Separation Methods and Techniques for Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

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Journal Materials (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Date 2017 Sep 9

PMID 28883313

Citations 6

Authors

Naoki Komatsu

Feng Wang

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Abstract

Structural control of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is attracting enormous interest in view of their applications to nanoelectronics and nanooptics. Actually, more than 200 papers regarding separation of SWNTs have been published since 1998. In this review, they are classified into the following five sections according to the separation methods; electrophoresis, centrifugation, chromatography, selective solubilization and selective reaction. In each method, all literature is summarized in tables showing the separated objects (metallic/semiconducting (M/S), length, diameter, (, ) structure and/or handedness), the production process of the used SWNTs (CoMoCAT, HiPco, arc discharge and/or laser vaporization) and the employed chemicals, such as detergents and polymers. Changes in annual number of publications related to this subject are also discussed.

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