PMID- 21727490
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121002
LR  - 20110705
IS  - 0957-4484 (Print)
IS  - 0957-4484 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 10
DP  - 2006 May 28
TI  - Synthesis and characterization of water-soluble multiwalled carbon nanotubes 
      grafted by a thermoresponsive polymer.
PG  - 2458-65
LID - 10.1088/0957-4484/17/10/005 [doi]
AB  - Water-soluble multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) with temperature-responsive 
      shells were successfully prepared by grafting poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) 
      (PNIPAM) from the sidewalls of MWNTs, via surface reversible 
      addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization using RAFT agent 
      functionalized MWNTs as the chain transfer agent. Thermogravimetric analysis 
      (TGA) measurements showed that the weight composition of the as-grown PNIPAM 
      polymers on the MWNTs can be well controlled by the feed ratio (in weight) of 
      NIPAM to RAFT agent functionalized MWNTs (MWNT-SC(S)Ph). The MWNT-g-PNIPAM has 
      good solubility in water, chloroform, and tetrahydrofuran (THF). Transmission 
      electron microscope (TEM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) images also 
      showed that the MWNT-g-PNIPAM was dispersed individually and eventually bonded 
      with the polymer layer by surface RAFT polymerization. The PNIPAM shell is very 
      sensitive to a change of temperature. This method could find potential 
      applications by grafting other functional polymer chains onto MWNTs.
FAU - Xu, Guoyong
AU  - Xu G
AD  - Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, 
      Structure Research Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, 
      Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China.
FAU - Wu, Wei-Tai
AU  - Wu WT
FAU - Wang, Yusong
AU  - Wang Y
FAU - Pang, Wenmin
AU  - Pang W
FAU - Wang, Pinghua
AU  - Wang P
FAU - Zhu, Qingren
AU  - Zhu Q
FAU - Lu, Fei
AU  - Lu F
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20060424
PL  - England
TA  - Nanotechnology
JT  - Nanotechnology
JID - 101241272
EDAT- 2006/05/28 00:00
MHDA- 2006/05/28 00:01
CRDT- 2011/07/06 06:00
PHST- 2011/07/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2006/05/28 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/05/28 00:01 [medline]
AID - S0957-4484(06)15732-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1088/0957-4484/17/10/005 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nanotechnology. 2006 May 28;17(10):2458-65. doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/17/10/005. 
      Epub 2006 Apr 24.