Solubilisation of multi walled carbon nanotubes by α-pyrene functionalised PMMA and their liquid crystalline self-organisation

Abstract

alpha-Pyrene functionalised poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) chains were synthesised by RAFT polymerisation and found to be highly efficient to solubilise and disentangle multi walled carbon nanotubes that can now self-organise as liquid crystalline phases in PMMA and PEG 400 matrices.