Radioactive endohedral metallofullerenes formed by prompt gamma-generated nuclear recoil implosion

Radiochemical approaches for formation of endohedral fullerenes and MD simulation

“…An alternative way of producing endohedral C 60 is to insert foreign atoms into the cages of the preexisting C 60 afterwards, and it has been presented several techniques for insertion of foreign atoms into the C 60 [5][6][7]. However, the nature of the chemical interaction between foreign atoms and fullerene cages, the formation process and the possible materials produced cannot be fully understood even at present.…”

Perturbed Angular Correlation Study of the Static and Dynamic Aspects of Cadmium and Mercury Atoms Inside and Attached to a C60 Fullerene Cage

“…HPLC is also used for the purification of the fullerene products. However, the chemical separation methodology [11] can also justify the formation of endofullerenes. In our previous work [10], we argued that the organic solvent contains the fullerene and endofullerene products as the radioactivity attached externally to fullerene molecules are dissolved in strong acid and remain in the aqueous phase after solvent extraction.…”

Applications of radiotracer techniques for the pharmacology and toxicology studies of nanomaterials

“…However, this procedure has the drawback that part of the activated nuclide from inside the carbon cage is breaking out of the cage by nuclear recoil during activation. Braun and Rusch [29][30][31][32][33] discovered a method for the more efficient production of carrier-free radionuclides containing endohedral fullerenes by using the implantation of atoms from outside the cage into the cage by nuclear recoil after neutron capture. This is the reverse of the above-mentioned breakout.…”