Grafting polymer coatings onto the surfaces of carbon nanotube forests and yarns via a photon irradiation process

Fei Deng; N. Rujisamphan; Chang Liu; Yoshinari Maezono; Stephen C. Hawkins; Chi P. Huynh; S. Ismat Shah; Chaoying Ni

doi:10.1063/1.4720509

Grafting polymer coatings onto the surfaces of carbon nanotube forests and yarns via a photon irradiation process

Fei Deng, N. Rujisamphan, Chang Liu, Yoshinari Maezono, Stephen C. Hawkins, Chi P. Huynh, S. Ismat Shah, Chaoying Ni

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Abstract

Surface activation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as forests and yarns, depolytmerization of candidate polymers, and uniform deposition and re-polymerization onto the activated CNTs are simultaneously achieved by exposing CNTs and polymer targets to light with a narrow wavelength distribution from a vacuum ultraviolet lamp. Both polystyrene and poly (methyl methacrylate) are deposited onto the surface of CNTs in the CNT-forest and yarn in a N ₂ environment for 30 min during which the polymer uniformly coats the carbon nanotubes. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy data reveal that covalent bonding occurs at the CNT-polymer interface.

Original language	English
Article number	213109
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	100
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4720509
Publication status	Published - 21 May 2012
Externally published	Yes

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