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Responsive Aligned Carbon Nanotubes
Author(s) -
Sun Taolei,
Liu Huan,
Song Wenlong,
Wang Xi,
Jiang Lei,
Li Lin,
Zhu Daoben
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200460774
Subject(s) - carbon nanotube , wetting , materials science , atom transfer radical polymerization , nanotechnology , polymerization , rigidity (electromagnetism) , feeling , chemical engineering , composite material , polymer , psychology , engineering , social psychology
Feeling the heat : Surface‐initiated atom transfer radical polymerization was used to modify a film of aligned carbon nanotubes with poly( N ‐isopropylacrylamide) (see TEM image). A distinct temperature responsiveness is found for both the macroscopic (wettability) and the microscopic (the diameter and rigidity of a single carbon nanotube) properties of the resulting film.