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Cover Picture: Grafting Living Polymers onto Carbon Nanohorns (Chem. Eur. J. 27/2007)
Author(s) -
Mountrichas Grigoris,
Pispas Stergios,
Tagmatarchis Nikos
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.200790100
Subject(s) - polymer , surface modification , grafting , materials science , carbon fibers , transmission electron microscopy , nanotechnology , polymer chemistry , polymer science , chemical engineering , composite material , composite number , engineering
The surface functionalization of carbon nanohorns (CNHs) based on the “grafting‐to” approach has been achieved through addition of living anionic (co)polymer chains. Images of the polymer‐functionalized CNHs obtained from transmission electron microscopy, reveal that the unique morphological features of CNHs are retained, that is, conical tips and dahlia flower‐like assemblies with average diameters in the order of 80–130 nm. The success of functionalization is described by N. Tagmatarchis, S. Pispas, and G. Mountrichas in their Full Paper on page 7595 ff.