Methods for nondestructive dispersing of carbon nanomaterials in water

Wang, Yuhuang; Wang, Peng; Kim, Mijin; Zhang, Chiyu

Methods for nondestructive dispersing of carbon nanomaterials in water

Patent · 27 December 2021

OSTI ID:1860203

Wang, Yuhuang; Wang, Peng; Kim, Mijin; Zhang, Chiyu

A method termed “superacid-surfactant exchange” (S2E) for the dispersion of carbon nanomaterials in aqueous solutions. This S2E method enables nondestructive dispersion of carbon nanomaterials (including single-walled carbon nanotubes, double-walled carbon nanotubes, multi-wall carbon nanotubes, and graphene) at rapidly and at large scale in aqueous solution without a requirement for expensive or complicated equipment. Dispersed carbon nanotubes obtained from this method feature long length, low defect density, high electrical conductivity, and in the case of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes, bright photoluminescence in the near-infrared.

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Research Organization:: University of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); National Science Foundation (NSF); Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

DOE Contract Number:: AR0000527

Assignee:: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, MD)

Patent Number(s):: 11,208,571

Application Number:: 16/536,166

OSTI ID:: 1860203

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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