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Preparation and Characterization of C60/Graphene Hybrid Nanostructures
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A photoresponsive graphene oxide-C60 conjugate
M Barrejón1, M Vizuete, M J Gómez-Escalonilla
1Instituto de Nanociencia, Nanotecnología y Materiales Moleculares (INAMOL), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 45071, Toledo, Spain. Fernando.Langa@uclm.es.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 31, 2014
Abstract:
An all-carbon donor-acceptor hybrid combining graphene oxide (GO) and C60 has been prepared. Laser flash photolysis measurements revealed the occurrence of photoinduced electron transfer from the GO electron donor to the C60 electron acceptor in the conjugate.
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