Radical polymerization inside carbon nanotube and its application

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K21073
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Organic chemistry; Nanomaterials chemistry
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Omachi Haruka 名古屋大学, 物質科学国際研究センター, 助教 (60711497)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: カーボンナノチューブ / 内包 / ラジカル / １次元 / ダイヤモンドポリマー / ポリチオフェン

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Utilizing inner space of carbon nanotubes, new synthetic methods for one-dimensional nanomaterials were accomplished. Instead of the thermal coalescence of encapsulated molecules, novel one-dimensional nanomaterials were synthesized efficiently through carbon-carbon bond or hydrogen bond formation under mid conditions. We demonstrate the synthesis of one-dimensional diamondoid polymers or long polythiophenes. Especially, polythiophenes, encapsulated in carbon nanotubes, showed s-trans co-planar conformation even at solid state. In addition, selective p-doing to metallic carbon nanotubes were observed after the encapsulation of polythiophenes.

Free Research Field

ナノカーボン化学