The doped sites of locally functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes show unique solvatochromic behaviors in their near-infrared photoluminescence.
Local chemical functionalization is used for defect doping of single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), to develop near‐infrared photoluminescence (NIR PL) properties. We report the multistep wavelength shifting of the NIR PL of SWNTs through chemical reactions at local doped sites tethered to an arylaldehyde group. The PL wavelength of the doped SWNTs is modulated based on imine chemistry. This involves the imine formation of aldehyde groups with added arylamines, imine dissociation reaction, exchange reaction of bound arylamines in the imine, and the Kabachnik–Fields reaction of imine groups using diisopropyl phosphite. Using doped sites as a localized chemical reaction platform can exploit the versatile molecularly driven functionality of carbon nanotubes and related nanomaterials.
Local chemical functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes has been reported to modulate their near infrared photoluminescence (PL), where defect doping creates new emissive sites on the nanotubes. Previously, we reported on proximal defect doping with the use of bis-aryldiazonium salts, which considerably red-shifted nanotube PL (>1200 nm). In this study, we achieved PL modulation with newly designed bisaryldiazonium modifiers having meta-linked methylene spacers. The spacer length-dependent wavelength shifts were greater than those of our previous para-linkage design.
Lack of necessary degree of control over carbon nanotube (CNT) structure has remained a major impediment factor for making significant advances using this material since it was discovered. Recently, a wide range of promising sorting methods emerged as an antidote to this problem, all of which unfortunately have a multistep nature. Here we report that desired type of CNTs can be targeted and isolated in a single step using modified aqueous two-phase extraction. We achieve this by introducing hydration modulating agents, which are able to tune the arrangement of surfactants on their surface, and hence make selected CNTs highly hydrophobic or hydrophilic. This allows for separation of minor chiral species from the CNT mixture with up to 99.7 ± 0.02% selectivity without the need to carry out any unnecessary iterations. Interestingly, our strategy is also able to enrich the optical emission from CNTs under selected conditions.
Azide functionalization produced luminescent sp2-type defects on single-walled carbon nanotubes, by which defect photoluminescence appeared in near infrared regions (1116 nm). Changes in exciton properties were induced by localization effects...
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