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Nanorings of self-assembled fullerene C(70) as templating nanoreactors
K Swaminathan Iyer1, Martin Saunders, Thomas Becker
1Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA-6009, Australia.
Abstract:
Micelles, polyelectrolytes, peptides, and plasmid DNA with well-defined growth cavities can function as templates for the synthesis of metal nanocrystals. In a similar way, carbon-based toroidal 'nanoreactors' composed of clustered fullerenes could be used to synthesize nanohybrids by forming metal nanocrystals within the confines of the ring.
