Publications [#233053] of Jie Liu

Journal Articles

1. Boul, P; Liu, J; Mickelson, E; Huffman, C; Ericson, L; Chiang, I; Smith, K; Colbert, DT; Hauge, R; Margrave, J; Smalley, RE, Reversible Sidewall Functionalization of Buckytubes, Chemical Physics Lettera, vol. 310 no. 3-4 (1999), pp. 367, Elsevier BV [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/15)

   Abstract:
   Single-wall fullerene nanotubes have been made soluble in various organic solvents, including chloroform, methylene chloride, and tetrahydrofuran by covalently attaching alkanes to their sidewalls. Sidewall-alkylated nanotubes are obtained by reacting sidewall-fluorinated nanotubes with alkyl magnesium bromides in a Grignard synthesis or by reaction with alkyllithium precursors. Covalent attachment to the sidewalls was confirmed by UV-visible spectroscopy, which is also used to show that the alkane sidewall groups can be removed by oxidizing them in air to recover pristine nanotubes.