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Chemically Modified Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (Mwcnts) With Anchored Acidic Groups, Nuruzatulifah Bt Asari Mansor, Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Ali Rinaldi, Sylvia Reiche, M. G. Kutty
Chemically Modified Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (Mwcnts) With Anchored Acidic Groups, Nuruzatulifah Bt Asari Mansor, Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Ali Rinaldi, Sylvia Reiche, M. G. Kutty
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier
Surface functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) was carried out using a gas phase treatment in a Universal Temperature Program (UTP) reactor by flowing SO 3 gas onto the CNTs while being heated at different temperatures. The functionalized nanotubes were characterized using X-ray Fluorescence (XRF), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) and Raman spectroscopy. The amount of oxyen and sulfur containing groups was determined by acid-base titration. The titration results were in good agreement with elemental analysis using X-ray fluorescence. FTIR analysis showed the presence of oxygen and sulfur containing groups, S=O, C-S, C=O and-COOH. Raman spectroscopy confirmed that oxygen and …