Silica coated fullerenols: seeded growth of silica spheres under acidic conditions
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Preparation of Silica Nanoparticles Through Microwave-assisted Acid-catalysis
Published on: December 16, 2013
Elizabeth A Whitsitt1, Andrew R Barron
1Department of Chemistry, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 30, 2003
Abstract:
Liquid phase deposition of silica in the presence of fullerenol C60(OH)n, results in the formation of uniform silica spheres, whereas the use of C60 gives large non-uniform agglomerates as a result of homogeneous nucleation. Raman and UV spectroscopy indicate the C60 is retained as the core of the silica spheres.
