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Removal of amorphous carbon for the efficient sidewall functionalisation of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Lidong Shao, Gerard Tobías, Christoph G. Salzmann, Belén Ballesteros, Sung You Hong, Alison Crossley, Benjamin G. Davis, Malcolm L. H. Green

Chemical Communications · 2007 · 123 citations · 16 references

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The sidewall functionalisation of carbon nanotubes using the standard nitric acid treatment can be greatly enhanced by first removing the amorphous carbon present in the sample.

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Large-scale production of single-walled carbon nanotubes by the electric-arc technique

Catherine Journet, Wolfgang K. Maser, P. Bernier et al. · Nature · 1997 · 2.7K citations · Full text

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Solution Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Jian Chen, M. A. Hamon, Hui Hu et al. · Science · 1998 · 2.5K citations

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Large-scale purification of single-wall carbon nanotubes: process, product, and characterization

Andrew G. Rinzler, Jie Liu, Hongjie Dai et al. · Applied Physics A · 1998 · 1.3K citations

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Raman and IR Spectroscopy of Chemically Processed Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Un Jeong Kim, Clascídia Aparecida Furtado, Xiaoming Liu et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2005 · 556 citations

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