Preparation and optical properties of fullerene/ferrocene hybrid hexagonal nanosheets and large-scale production of fullerene hexagonal nanosheets.
The supramolecular nanoarchitectures, C(60)/ferrocene nanosheets, were prepared by a simple liquid-liquid interfacial precipitation method and fully characterized by means of SEM, STEM, HRTEM, XRD, Raman and UV-vis-NIR spectra. The highly crystallized C(60)/ferrocene hexagonal nanosheets had a size of ca. 9 microm and the formulation C(60)(ferrocene)(2). A strong charge-transfer (CT) band between ferrocene and C(60) was observed at 782 nm, indicating the presence of donor-acceptor interaction in the nanosheets. Upon heating the nanosheets to 150 degrees C, the CT band disappeared due to the sublimation of ferrocene from the C(60)/ferrocene hybrid, and C(60) nanosheets with an fcc crystal structure and the same shape and size as the C(60)/ferrocene nanosheets were obtained.
Wakahara
Takatsugu
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Fullerene Engineering Group, Exploratory Nanotechnology Research Laboratories, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. wakahara.takatsugu@nims.go.jp
Sathish
Marappan
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Miyazawa
Kun'ichi
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Hu
Chunping
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Tateyama
Yoshitaka
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Nemoto
Yoshihiro
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Sasaki
Toshio
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Ito
Osamu
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D005296:Ferrous Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D037741:Fullerenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D046911:Macromolecular Substances / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D000075163:Metallocenes; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D010316:Particle Size; D013499:Surface Properties
D005296:Ferrous Compounds; D037741:Fullerenes; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D000075163:Metallocenes; C069837:fullerene C60; C004998:ferrocene