Fullerene (C60) Nanowires: The Preparation, Characterization, and Potential Applications

X Fan, N Soin, H Li, H Li, X Xia… - Energy & Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fullerene (C60) nanowires have attracted significant attention in the past two decades due
to their outstanding chemical and physical properties, which render the material a wide …

Fullerene crystals with bimodal pore architectures consisting of macropores and mesopores

LK Shrestha, Y Yamauchi, JP Hill… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
A new class of fullerene (C60) crystals with bimodal pore architectures consisting of
macropores and mesopores was synthesized by using a liquid–liquid interfacial …

Solvated structure of C60 nanowhiskers

J Minato, K Miyazawa - Carbon, 2005 - Elsevier
This work characterizes the structure of C60 nanowhiskers prepared by the liquid–liquid
interfacial precipitation method in the C60-saturated m-xylene and isopropyl alcohol system …

Crystal Structure and Growth Mechanism of Unusually Long Fullerene (C60) Nanowires

J Geng, W Zhou, P Skelton, W Yue… - Journal of the …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Exceptionally long C60 nanowires, with a length to width aspect ratio as large as 3000, are
grown from a 1, 2, 4-trimethylbenzene solution of C60. They have been formed to possess a …

Morphology control of aromatic polymers in concert with polymerization

K Kimura, S Kohama, S Yamazaki - Polymer journal, 2006 - nature.com
Morphology control methods of aromatic polymers in concert with polymerization reaction
are described in this review. Many attractive methods have been developed including …

Synthesis and properties of fullerene nanowhiskers and fullerene nanotubes

K Miyazawa - Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Fine needle-like crystals of C60,“C60 nanowhiskers,” were discovered in 2001 in a colloidal
solution of PZT ceramics added with C60. Not only the C60 nanowhiskers but also the …

Morphology of C60 nanotubes fabricated by the liquid–liquid interfacial precipitation method

J Minato, K Miyazawa, T Suga - Science and Technology of Advanced …, 2005 - Elsevier
Single crystalline C60 fullerene nanowhiskers are formed by adding isopropyl alcohol gently
to fullerene saturated solutions. The method is called the liquid–liquid interfacial …

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

J Geng, IA Solov'yov, DG Reid, P Skelton… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
Large-scale practical applications of fullerene (C 60) in nanodevices could be significantly
facilitated if the commercially available micrometer-scale raw C 60 powder were further …

Transmission electron microscopy investigation of fullerene nanowhiskers and needle-like precipitates formed by using C60 and (η2-C60)Pt(PPh3)2

K Miyazawa, T Suga - Journal of materials research, 2004 - Springer
Nanowhiskers and needle-like precipitates obtained by the liquid-liquid interfacial
precipitation method for the systems of isopropyl alcohol and toluene solutions of C 60 and …

On the possibility of the electron polarization to be the driving force for the C60-TMB nanowire growth

IA Solov'yov, J Geng, AV Solov'yov… - Chemical Physics …, 2009 - Elsevier
The effect of electron polarization has been suggested to explain the exceptionally large
length-to width aspect ratio (more than 3000) in recently observed C60-based nanowires …