Grafting of oligo-N-vinyl carbazole on single walled carbon nanotubes

Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were functionalized with oligo-N-vinyl carbazole (OVK). Different experimental analyses (optical absorption, photoluminescence, infrared and Raman) were performed to argue the grafting of OVK on SWNTs. Furthermore, the experimental analyses were completed by theoretical studies based on ab initio and semi-empirical (AM1) methods in order to predict the correlation between structure and properties of the new synthesized composite.