Imaging As-Grown [60]Fullerene Nanotubes by Template Technique

Abstract

In this contribution we have developed a useful and experimentally easy way to use C60 powder to directly fabricate C60 nanotubes with a mondisperse size distribution and uniform orientation. The structure of C60 nanotubes was confirmed by SEM, TEM, and FT-IR.

Fullerene-based one-dimensional crystalline nanopolymer formed through topochemical transformation of the parent nanowire

“…In contrast, fullerene 1D nanostructures, such as C 60 nanowires, presently represent laboratory curiosities [2,3,4,5]. C 60 nanowires are highly interesting nanomaterials because of the physical properties associated with their high surface area, low-dimensionality and quantum confinement effects [6,7].…”

Synthesis and solid-state studies of self-assembled C60 microtubes

“…In the higher temperature region, just above the first mass loss region, the second mass loss starts at about 150 [19,20]. Peaks have been indexed as the (111), (220), (311) and (222) In our previous work, we have found that m-xylene is an effective shape controller for C 60 nanorods [2,7], forming a single crystalline solvated structure with C 60 . In this work m-xylene was also introduced into the lattice of C 60 , as shown by the TGA and IR results, the presence of m-xylene is attributed to its being dissolved into the toluene solution, where it can take part in the formation of 1D fullerene structure.…”

“…Very recently, a series of novel one-dimensional nanocrystals, with individual C 60 molecules as building blocks, have set off a renaissance in the scientific research [2][3][4]. Much effort has been made to find a controllable method to fabricate high quality one-dimensional C 60 nanocrystals, resulting in the discovery of the liquid-liquid interfacial precipitation method (LLIP) [5,6], the template method [2] and the solution evaporation method [3,7,8].…”

“…In particular, tubular nanocrystals received great interest for their unique structure and for potential applications, such as storage materials. As far as we are aware, C 60 nano/micro tubes were only obtained using the LLIP method and the template method [2,5]. However, for applications as devices, there remained two challenging tasks: (1) to synthesize tubular C 60 crystals with high purity (constituted with pure C 60 ) and high crystallinity, and (2) to fix the nanocrystals on substrates with good dispersibility.…”

Effects of alcohols on shape-tuning and luminescence-enhancing of C70 nanocrystals

“…In recent years, synthesis of low-dimensional nanocrystals with individual fullerene molecules as building blocks has aroused a research fever of nanotechnology [2][3][4][5][6]. Several methods, such as the use of templates [5] solvent-assisted methods with a solution or vapor-solid processes [2,3,6,7], have been used to synthesize fullerene crystals with various shapes and morphologies. Among these methods, the solventassisted method is reported to be a convenient and efficient method, which has become widely used for the synthesis of fullerene crystals.…”