Combinatorial Synthesis of Functionalised Carbon Nanotubes as Building Blocks of Electronic Nanostructures

J. BALACH; V. ORTIZ; D. F. ACEVEDO; M. C. MIRAS; C. A. BARBERO

Córdoba, Argentina

Congreso; 9a Conferencia Latinoamericana de Físico-Química Orgánica; 2007

Carbon nanotubes are insteristing materials to be used as components of electronics devices such as transistors. White it is possible that some carbon nanotubes devices could compete with silicon based devices (e. g. power transistors), it is more likely that wet processing of carbon nanotube will allow producing simple devices fo technological interest. Pristine carbon nanotube have low solubility due to weak interaction with solvents molecules and strong p-p and dispersive interaction between individual nanotubes. Therefore, the required solubility could be achieved by attachment of functional groups which interact efficiently with solvent and, due the steric effects, decreace the interaction between neighbouring nanotubes.