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MICROWAVE-ASSISTED SYNTHESIS OF CROSSLINKED POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) NANOCOMPOSITES COMPRISING SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES, MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES AND BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE
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NADAGOUDA, M. N. AND R. S. VARMA. MICROWAVE-ASSISTED SYNTHESIS OF CROSSLINKED POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) NANOCOMPOSITES COMPRISING SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES, MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES AND BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE. DOI: 10.1002/marc.20, Macromolecular Rapid Communications. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 28(7):842-847, (2007).
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We report a facile method to accomplish cross-linking reaction of poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) with single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWNT), and Buckminsterfullerene (C-60) using microwave (MW) irradiation. Nanocomposites of PVA cross-linked with SWNT, MWNT, and C-60 are prepared expeditiously by reacting respective carbon nanotubes with 3 wt % PVA under MW irradiation maintaining a temperature of 100°C, a radical improvement over the literature methods to prepare such cross-linked PVA composites. This general preparative procedure is versatile and provides a simple route in manufacturing useful SWNT, MWNT, and C-60 nanocomposites.
