Surfactant-free Fabrication of Fullerene C60 Nanotubules Under Shear

Kasturi Vimalanathan; Rekha Shrestha; Zhi Zhang; Jin Zou; Tomonobu Nakayama; Colin Raston

doi:10.1002/anie.201608673

Surfactant-free Fabrication of Fullerene C60 Nanotubules Under Shear

Kasturi Vimalanathan, Rekha Shrestha, Zhi Zhang, Jin Zou, Tomonobu Nakayama, Colin Raston

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8398-8401
Number of pages	4
Journal	Angewandte Chemie-International Edition
Volume	56
Issue number	29
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201608673
Publication status	Published - 10 Jul 2017

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fullerenes
microfluidics
nanotubules
self-assembly
shear

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