Functionalizing and characterizing single walled carbon nanotubes and their model compounds

PRES 17

Christopher N. Brammer, School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, Donna J. Nelson, djnelson@ou.edu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, E. Ann Nalley, annn@cameron.edu, ACS Past President, Professor of Chemistry, Physical Sciences Department, Cameron University, Lawton, OK 73505, and Daniel E. Resasco, resasco@ou.edu, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 100 E. Boyd St., Norman, OK 73019.
Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) potential applications include using functionalized nanotubes for drug delivery and in the development of new electronic materials. A reliable method of characterizing SWNTs would increase general applicabity and fully understand SWNT functionalization would be useful in SWNT synthesis quality control. To address the inherent difficulty in characterizing the functionalization, we report using a number of spectroscopic methods to characterize SWNT functionalization. Functionalizing SWNTs and their model compounds, and the use of IR, NMR and Raman to characterize the products will be discussed.
 

SWNTs From Synthesis to Application, From the Lab to the Fab: In Memory of Dr. Richard Smalley
4:30 PM-6:30 PM, Sunday, 10 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Room 305, Poster

Presidential Event

The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006