title: Surfactant-free Fabrication of Fullerene C60Nanotubules Under Shear.
abstract: A method for controlling the self-assembly of fullerene C60molecules into nanotubules in the fcc phase, devoid of entrapped solvent, has been established in a thin film microfluidic device. The micron length C60nanotubules, 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.
authors.affiliation: Flinders Centre for NanoScale Science Technology (CNST) Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Adelaide, 5001, Australia.
authors.forename: Kasturi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vimalanathan
authors.affiliation: International Centre for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.
authors.forename: Rekha Goswami
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Shrestha
authors.affiliation: Materials Engineering and Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
authors.forename: Zhi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Materials Engineering and Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.affiliation: International Centre for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.|Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomonobu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.affiliation: Flinders Centre for NanoScale Science Technology (CNST) Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Adelaide, 5001, Australia.
authors.forename: Colin L
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4753-0079
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Raston
keywords: fullerenes; microfluidics; nanotubules; self-assembly; shear