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Nature Materials 5, 433 - 434 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nmat1664
Nanocomposites: Polymer-wrapped nanotubes
Michael S. Strano1
- Michael S. Strano is in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61822, USA. e-mail: strano@uiuc.edu
Abstract
The hoped-for enhancement of the properties of polymer–nanotube composites have remained elusive, owing in part to the difficulties in obtaining well-dispersed mixtures. A chemical modification of the nanotube surface offers a new handle for controlling the dispersion.
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