Citation: Xuan Zhang, Xu-Dong Li. Solvent atmosphere controlled self-assembly of unmodified C60：A facile approach for constructing various architectures[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2014, 25(6): 912-914. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2014.03.041 shu

Solvent atmosphere controlled self-assembly of unmodified C60：A facile approach for constructing various architectures

Xuan Zhang ^, ,
Xu-Dong Li

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College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China

Corresponding author: Xuan Zhang,
Received Date: 15 January 2014
Available Online: 18 March 2014
Fund Project: This work was financially supported by the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No. 12ZZ067) (No. 12ZZ067) Shanghai Pujiang Program (No. 11PJ1400200) (No. 11PJ1400200) the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 20120075120018) (No. 20120075120018)

A facile approach for constructing diverse architectures of unmodified C₆₀ was developed via simple evaporation of pure C₆₀ solution in CS₂ under various poor solvent atmospheres. Diverse architectures such as belts, sheets, and starfishes were successfully constructed under different experimental conditions. C₆₀ belts obtained under EtOH atmosphere were confirmed to be a face-centered cubic (fcc) structure. The solvent atmospheres not only slowed down the evaporation speed, but also could reorganize the self-assembly of C₆₀ by partially re-dissolving the initially formed architectures. This concept represents a novel method for preparation of nanostructures of C₆₀ and could also be applied for controlling of the self-assembly of other functional organic molecules.
- Fullerene,
- Self-assembly,
- Nanostructure,
- Atmosphere,
- Evaporation
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