TY - JOUR
T1 - Surfactant-free Fabrication of Fullerene C60 Nanotubules Under Shear
AU - Vimalanathan, Kasturi
AU - Shrestha, Rekha
AU - Zhang, Zhi
AU - Zou, Jin
AU - Nakayama, Tomonobu
AU - Raston, Colin
PY - 2017/7/10
Y1 - 2017/7/10
N2 -
A method for controlling the self-assembly of fullerene C
60
molecules into nanotubules in the fcc phase, devoid of entrapped solvent, has been established in a thin film microfluidic device. The micron length C
60
nanotubules, with individual hollow diameters of 100 to 400 nm, are formed under continuous flow processing during high shear micromixing of water and a toluene solution of the fullerene, in the absence of surfactant, and without the need for further down-stream processing. TEM revealed pores on the surface of the nanotubes, and the isolated material has a much higher response to small molecule sensing than that for analogous material formed using multistep batch processing.
AB -
A method for controlling the self-assembly of fullerene C
60
molecules into nanotubules in the fcc phase, devoid of entrapped solvent, has been established in a thin film microfluidic device. The micron length C
60
nanotubules, with individual hollow diameters of 100 to 400 nm, are formed under continuous flow processing during high shear micromixing of water and a toluene solution of the fullerene, in the absence of surfactant, and without the need for further down-stream processing. TEM revealed pores on the surface of the nanotubes, and the isolated material has a much higher response to small molecule sensing than that for analogous material formed using multistep batch processing.
KW - fullerenes
KW - microfluidics
KW - nanotubules
KW - self-assembly
KW - shear
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85006493392&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/anie.201608673
DO - 10.1002/anie.201608673
M3 - Article
SN - 1433-7851
VL - 56
SP - 8398
EP - 8401
JO - Angewandte Chemie-International Edition
JF - Angewandte Chemie-International Edition
IS - 29
ER -