Carbon nanotube stabilised emulsions for electrochemical synthesis of porous nanocomposite coatings of poly[3,4-ethylene-dioxythiophene].
School of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UKNG7 2RD.
The amphiphobic nature of carbon nanotubes allows them to stabilise droplets of water-insoluble monomers dispersed in the aqueous nanotube suspension, leading to a flexible route to electrochemical synthesis of useful nanoporous composites of nanotube doped conducting polymers, and potentially to other chemistry involving reactants incompatible in the same medium.
PMID: 17082865 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]