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Fullerene superlattices containing charge transfer complexes for an improved nonlinear optical performance
Jinrui Li1, Hongguang Li1, Jingcheng Hao1
1Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China. hgli@sdu.edu.cn.
Nanoscale
|January 28, 2022
Summary
Researchers developed a new method to enhance fullerene C60 nonlinear optical properties without chemical modification. This solvent-based nanoarchitectonics approach creates ordered 3D C60 structures with improved optical limiting capabilities.
Area of Science:
- Materials Science
- Nanotechnology
- Nonlinear Optics
Background:
- Chemical modification of fullerene C60 is typically required to achieve desirable nonlinear optical (NLO) properties.
- Existing methods for modifying C60 often involve complex synthesis and can damage its conjugated structure, limiting other applications.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a method for enhancing the NLO properties of fullerene C60 without chemical alteration.
- To create highly ordered, three-dimensional (3D) C60 supramolecular structures using solvent-based nanoarchitectonics.
Main Methods:
- A liquid-liquid interfacial precipitation (LLIP) method was employed using quinoline as a good solvent.
- Hollow polyhedra (HPH) and multilayer flowers (MFs) of C60 were synthesized using methanol and ethanol as poor solvents, respectively.
- The structural and optical properties of the resulting C60 architectures were analyzed, including their performance in nonlinear optical applications.
Main Results:
- Two distinct 3D C60 supramolecular structures, HPH and MFs, were successfully synthesized.
- Intercalation of quinoline into MFs induced a phase transition from face-centered-cubic (fcc) to hexagonal close packed (hcp) C60 lattice.
- Both HPH and MFs exhibited significant reverse saturable absorption (RSA) and optical limiting (OL) properties when embedded in a PMMA matrix.
- MFs demonstrated superior NLO performance (higher nonlinear absorption coefficient and lower optical limiting threshold) compared to HPH, attributed to charge transfer complex formation.
Conclusions:
- Solvent-based nanoarchitectonics offers an effective route to tune the NLO properties of fullerene C60 without chemical modification.
- The formation of ordered 3D C60 supramolecular structures, particularly MFs with intercalated quinoline, significantly enhances optical limiting capabilities.
- This approach opens new avenues for utilizing C60 in nonlinear optical devices and applications.
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