Cutting, Solubilizing and Size-Sorting of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
The fluorination of purified HiPco single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to a stoichiometry CFx (x ≤ 0.2) followed by pyrolysis of the partially fluorinated SWNTs up to 1000 oC was found to have cut the nanotubes [...]