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A Novel Method for Sorting Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Length

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2011

Shigekazu Ohmori ,
Takeshi Saito ,
Bikau Shukla ,
Motoo Yumura  and
Sumio Iijima
Shigekazu Ohmori
Affiliation:
Nanotube Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.
Takeshi Saito
Affiliation:
Nanotube Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.
Bikau Shukla
Affiliation:
Nanotube Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.
Motoo Yumura
Affiliation:
Nanotube Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.
Sumio Iijima
Affiliation:
Nanotube Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.
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Abstract

We report a novel system for sorting single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) by length via cross-flow filtration with three membrane filters of different pore sizes, 1.0, 0.45, and 0.2 μm. SWCNTs dispersed in water with the help of polymer type detergents, such as sodium carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) and polyoxyethylene stearyl ether (Brij 700), were successfully fractionated into four samples, and the atomic force microscopy (AFM) observation of those samples confirmed that their length distribution peaks are within the expected ranges from pore sizes of used filters. However, the result of the similar filtration process using a non-polymer detergent, sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (SDBS), showed no pronounced correlation between the length distribution of SWCNTs and the pore size. The observed difference in the sorting phenomena caused by the detergent type suggests that the permeation property depends on the complex structure resulting from the dispersed SWCNTs and detergent molecules.

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nanostructurenanoscaleC
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1284: Symposium C – Fundamentals of Low-Dimensional Carbon Nanomaterials , 2011 , mrsf10-1284-c14-06
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2011

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