Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Clay-Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Superstructures

Overview

Journal ACS Omega

Publisher American Chemical Society

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2019 Nov 14

PMID 31720512

Citations 5

Authors

Nikolaos Chalmpes

Antonios Kouloumpis

Panagiota Zygouri

Niki Karouta

Konstantinos Spyrou

Panagiota Stathi

Theodoros Tsoufis

Vasilios Georgakilas

Dimitrios Gournis

Petra Rudolf

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Abstract

Much of the research effort concerning layered materials is directed toward their use as building blocks for the development of hybrid nanostructures with well-defined dimensions and behavior. Here, we report the fabrication through layer-by-layer deposition and intercalation chemistry of a new type of clay-based hybrid film, where functionalized carbon nanotubes are sandwiched between nanometer-sized smectite clay platelets. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) were covalently functionalized in a single step with phenol groups, via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition, to allow for stable dispersion in polar solvents. For the production of hybrid thin films, a bottom-up approach combining self-assembly with Langmuir-Schaefer deposition was applied. Smectite clay nanoplatelets act as a structure-directing interface and reaction media for grafting functionalized carbon nanotubes in a bidimensional array, allowing for a controllable layer-by-layer growth at a nanoscale. Hybrid clay/SWCNT multilayer films deposited on various substrates were characterized by X-ray reflectivity, Raman, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies, as well as atomic force microscopy.

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