Diameter effect on the sidewall functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes by addition of dichlorocarbene

• Main Authors: Zhang, Kang, Zhang, Qing, Liu, Cao, Marzari, Nicola, Stellacci, Francesco
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97125; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10424
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Dichlorocarbene is added to the sidewalls of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with diameters ranging from 1.2 to 2.2 nm. Small diameter SWNTs are found to react much more easily than large diameter SWNTs. Upon functionalization, the conductance could be largely preserved for almost all SWNTs,...