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Amino acid functionalisation of water soluble carbon nanotubes

Vasilios Georgakilas, Nikos Tagmatarchis, Davide Pantarotto, Alberto Bianco, Jean‐Paul Briand

Chemical Communications · 2002 · 341 citations · 27 references

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Abstract

High solubility of SWNTs and MWNTs in water is obtained by organic functionalisation; derivatisation with N-protected glycine is also easily achieved.

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