dc.contributor.author | Engtrakul, Chaiwat | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Davis, Mark | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Gennett, Thomas | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Dillon, Anne | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Jones, Kim | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Heben, Michael | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-07-19T19:44:48Z | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2006-07-19T19:44:48Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2005-12-14 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of the American Chemical Society 127N49 (2005) 17548-17555 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1520-5126 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1850/2184 | en_US |
dc.description | This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Photochemistry program funded by the Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The reversible protonation of carbon single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) in sulfuric acid and Nafion was investigated using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Raman spectroscopies. Magic-angle spinning (MAS) was used to obtain high-resolution 13C and 1H-13C cross polarization (CP) NMR spectra. The 13C NMR chemical shifts are reported for bulk SWNTs, H2SO4-treated SWNTs, SWNT-Nafion polymer composites, SWNT-AQ55 polymer composites, and SWNTs in contact with water. Protonation occurs without irreversible oxidation of the nanotube substrate via a charge-transfer process. This is the first report of a chemically induced change in a SWNT 13C resonance brought about by a reversible interaction with an acidic proton, providing additional evidence that carbon nanotubes behave as weak bases. Cross polarization was found to be a powerful technique for providing an additional contrast mechanism for studying nanotubes in contact with other chemical species. The CP studies confirmed polarization transfer from nearby protons to nanotube carbon atoms. The CP technique was also applied to investigate water adsorbed on carbon nanotube surfaces. Finally, the degree of bundling of the SWNTs in Nafion films was probed with the 1H-13C CP-MAS technique. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 31371 bytes | en_US |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | The American Chemical Society: Journal of the American Chemical Society | en_US |
dc.subject | Nuclear magnetic resonance | en_US |
dc.subject | Protonation | en_US |
dc.subject | Single-walled nanotubes | en_US |
dc.title | Protonation of carbon single-walled nanotubes studied using 13C and 1H-13C cross polarization nuclear magnetic resonance and raman spectroscopies | en_US |
dc.type | Abstract | en_US |
dc.identifier.url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja0557886 | |