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SUBMITTER: Chiou K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5984515 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chiou Kevin K Byun Segi S Kim Jaemyung J Huang Jiaxing J
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180514 22
Cresols are a group of naturally occurring and massively produced methylphenols with broad use in the chemical industry. Here, we report that <i>m</i>-cresol and its liquid mixtures with other isomers are surprisingly good solvents for processing carbon nanotubes. They can disperse carbon nanotubes of various types at unprecedentedly high concentrations of tens of weight percent, without the need for any dispersing agent or additive. Cresols interact with carbon nanotubes by charge transfer thro ...[more]