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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2006
Applicants:
Stanislaus S. Wong, Middle Island, NY (US);
Sarbajit Banerjee, Stony Brook, NY (US);
Inventors:
Stanislaus S. Wong, Middle Island, NY (US);
Sarbajit Banerjee, Stony Brook, NY (US);
Assignee:
The Research Foundation of State University of New York, Albany, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 31/00 (2006.01); D01F 9/12 (2006.01); C09C 1/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides a method of functionalizing the sidewalls of a plurality of carbon nanotubes with oxygen moieties, the method comprising: exposing a carbon nanotube dispersion to an ozone/oxygen mixture to form a plurality of ozonized carbon nanotubes; and contacting the plurality of ozonized carbon nanotubes with a cleaving agent to form a plurality of sidewall-functionalized carbon nanotubes.