Chemistry Letters, Vol.40, No.3, 239-241, 2011
One-pot Separation of Highly Enriched (6,5)-Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes Using a Fluorene-based Copolymer
We now describe the finding that a copolymer of 9,9-dioctylfluorenyl-2,7-diyl and bipyridine (BPy) can extract in "one-pot" approximate to 96-97%-enriched (6,5)-SWNTs in m-xylene and p-xylene not containing metallic SWNTs, which was revealed by vis near IR absorption, photoluminescence, and Raman spectroscopies.