Functionalization, Chemistry and Electrochemistry

Wednesday, May 14, 2014: 10:00-11:40
Bonnet Creek Ballroom XII, Lobby Level (Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek)
Chairs:
Philip G. Collins and Francois Leonard
10:20
Invited Presentation: The Role of Dispersing Molecules on the Separation and Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
N. K. Subbaiyan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), S. Cambre (University of Antwerp), A. N. Parra-Vasquez, E. Haroz (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. Crochet (Los Alamos National laboratory), B. Lounis (Bordeaux University), L. Cognet (Institut d'Optique & CNRS), S. Doorn, and J. G. Duque (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10:40
Surfactants' Key Role in Ionic Aqueous Two-Phase Separation of Carbon Nanotubes Towards Simple Chirality Isolation
N. K. Subbaiyan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), S. Cambré (Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Los Alamos National Laboratory), A. N. Parra-Vasquez, E. Haroz, S. K. Doorn, and J. G. Duque (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
11:00
Structure-Dependent Thermal Defunctionalization of Alkylated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
S. Ghosh, F. Wei, X. Fan, W. E. Billups (Rice University), R. Hauge (The Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University), and R. B. Weisman (Rice University)
11:20