Noncovalent Titania Wrapping of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Environmentally Stable Transparent Conductive Thin Films

환경신뢰성이 확보된 투명전도성 필름을 위한 비공유 결합에 의한 단일벽 탄소나노튜브의 $TiO_2$ 코팅

  • 한중탁 (한국전기연구원 혁신소재연구센터) ;
  • 김준석 (한국전기연구원 혁신소재연구센터) ;
  • 정희진 (한국전기연구원 혁신소재연구센터) ;
  • 정승열 (한국전기연구원 혁신소재연구센터) ;
  • 이건웅 (한국전기연구원 혁신소재연구센터)
  • Published : 2010.06.16

Abstract

We present a simple process for the fabrication of high performance transparent conducting films that contain single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) noncovalently coated with an ultrathin titania layer. The hydrophobic interactions between nanotube surfaces and the acetylacetone (acac) ligands used to stabilize the $TiO_2$ precursor provide an interesting alternative method for noncovalently coating the SWCNTs with a titania layer. The ultrathin titania layer on SWCNTs prevented the oxidation of functionalized SWCNTs at high temperatures, and protected against water molecule absorption.

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