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Design Rules for Graphene and Carbon Nanotube Solvents and Dispersants
journal contribution
posted on 2018-01-23, 00:00 authored by Adam Hardy, James Dix, Christopher D. Williams, Flor R. Siperstein, Paola Carbone, Henry BockThe constantly widening
industrial applications of carbon-based
nanomaterials puts into sharp perspective the lack of true solvents
in which the materials spontaneously exfoliate to individual molecules.
This work shows that the different geometry of graphene compared to
that of carbon nanotubes can change the potency of a molecule to act
as a solvent or dispersant. Through analysis of the structure/function
relationships, we derive a number of design rules that will aid the
identification of the best solvent or dispersant candidates.