Long Dewu, Wu Guozhong, Zhu Guanglai
Department of Nuclear Analysis, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800 China.
Int J Mol Sci. 2008 Feb;9(2):120-130. doi: 10.3390/ijms9020120. Epub 2008 Feb 5.
We report here the modification of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) with a kind of polysaccharide, carboxymethylated chitosan (cmCs), and their potential usage as donor-acceptor nanohybrids. The modified composites (cmCs/MWNTs) were characterized by high-resolution TEM, FT-IR, TGA and time-resolved spectroscopy. The time-resolved spectroscopic experiments revealed that interfacial electron transfer readily takes place between MWNTs and surface immobilized cmCs chains. The forward electron transfer is fast (< 20 ns) while the backward recombination is slow. The recombination process strongly depends on the chain length of carboxylmethylated chitosan, i.e. a shorter recombination lifetime (1.1 micros) for the shorter-chain cmCs coated MWNTs against that of the longer-chain cmCs coated MWNTs (3.5 micros). The results demonstrated that the cmCs/MWNTs composite may be applied as a controllable donor-acceptor nanohybrid.
我们在此报告了用一种多糖——羧甲基化壳聚糖(cmCs)对多壁碳纳米管(MWNTs)进行改性,以及它们作为供体 - 受体纳米杂化物的潜在用途。通过高分辨率透射电子显微镜、傅里叶变换红外光谱、热重分析和时间分辨光谱对改性复合材料(cmCs/MWNTs)进行了表征。时间分辨光谱实验表明,MWNTs与表面固定的cmCs链之间很容易发生界面电子转移。正向电子转移很快(<20纳秒),而反向复合则很慢。复合过程强烈依赖于羧甲基化壳聚糖的链长,即较短链cmCs包覆的MWNTs的复合寿命较短(约1.1微秒),而较长链cmCs包覆的MWNTs的复合寿命较长(约3.5微秒)。结果表明,cmCs/MWNTs复合材料可作为一种可控的供体 - 受体纳米杂化物。