Sinnott Susan B
University of Florida, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gainesville, Florida 32611-6400, USA.
J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2002 Apr;2(2):113-23. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2002.107.
There are many reasons why one would want to form chemical attachments to the walls or ends of carbon nanotubes: these chemical bonds might be used to tailor the interaction of the nanotube with other entities, such as a solvent, a polymer matrix, or other nanotubes. The chemically functionalized nanotube might have mechanical or electrical properties that are different from those of the unfunctionalized nanotube and thus might be used as a chemical sensor or a nanometer-scale electronic device. The challenge is to find a way to reproducibly and reliably chemically alter carbon nanotubes that, like graphite, are fairly unreactive. The various methods used to date and the possible application of the resulting functionalized nanotubes is discussed in this review paper.
这些化学键可用于调整纳米管与其他实体（如溶剂、聚合物基体或其他纳米管）之间的相互作用。化学功能化的纳米管可能具有与未功能化纳米管不同的机械或电学性质，因此可被用作化学传感器或纳米级电子器件。挑战在于找到一种可重复且可靠地对像石墨一样相当惰性的碳纳米管进行化学改性的方法。本文综述了迄今为止所使用的各种方法以及所得功能化纳米管的可能应用。
