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Cover Picture: Spinning Carbon Nanotube‐Gel Fibers Using Polyelectrolyte Complexation (Adv. Funct. Mater. 23/2008)
Author(s) -
Granero Alberto J.,
Razal Joselito M.,
Wallace Gordon G.,
in het Panhuis Marc
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.200890097
Subject(s) - polyelectrolyte , biopolymer , materials science , spinning , carbon nanotube , dispersion (optics) , chemical engineering , cationic polymerization , nanotechnology , nanocomposite , composite material , polymer chemistry , polymer , optics , engineering , physics
The use of wet‐spinning and polyelectrolyte complexation to assemble carbon nanotube‐gel fibers by injecting a SWNT‐biopolymer dispersion into a coagulation bath containing a biopolymer of opposite charge is described by A. J. Granero on page 3759 . The ability to spin fibers, and their properties, depend on processing conditions such as polyelectrolyte pH, sonolysis regime, and the order in which the anionic and cationic biopolymer solutions are added.