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Carbon nanotubes surface modifications: an overview / Vikas Mittal -- Modification of carbon nanotubes by layer-by-layer assembly approach / Vaibhav Jain and Akshay Kokil -- Noncovalent functionalization of electrically conductive nanotubes by multiple ionic or [pi]-[pi] stacking interactions with block copolymers / Petar Petrov and Levon Terlemezyan -- Modification of nanotubes with conjugated block copolymers / Jianhua Zou [and others] -- Theoretical analysis of nanotube functionalization and polymer grafting / Kausala Mylvaganam and Liang Chi Zhang -- Covalent binding of nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes / Daxiang Cui -- Amine-functionalized carbon nanotubes / Ramaiyan Kannan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai -- Functionalization of nanotubes by ring-opening and anionic surface initiated polymerization / Georgios Sakellariou, Dimitrios Priftis, and Nikos Hadjichristidis -- Grafting of polymers on nanotubes by atom transfer radical polymerization / Chao Gao -- Polymer grafting onto carbon nanotubes via cationic ring-opening polymerization / Ye Liu and Decheng Wu -- Plasma deposition of polymer film on nanotubes / Chuh-Yung Chen -- Functionalization of carbon nanotubes by polymers using grafting to methods / Jean-Michel Thomassin [and others] -- Organic functionalization of nanotubes by dipolar cycloaddition / Vassilios Georgakilas and Dimitrios Gournis.

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