The Rice lab of Angel Martí published a paper in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Omega outlining what happens when PTFE stir bars are used to functionalize nanotubes through Billups-Birch reduction, a long-used reaction developed in part by Rice Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Edward Billups that frees electrons to bind with other atoms.
A pristine stir bar made of ferromagnetic metal with a PTFE, or Teflon, coating. Photo by Brandon Martin
Odd reaction creates a stir in the lab
