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Preparation and Characterization of C60/Graphene Hybrid Nanostructures
Published on: May 15, 2018
Supramolecular Substructure of C60-Embedded Schwarzite
Chongwei Zhu1, Kazutaka Shoyama1, M A Niyas1
1Institut für Organische Chemie and Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC), Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany).
Abstract:
Herein we present a new concept of carbon allotrope, namely, fullerene-embedded schwarzite. We isolated crystals of fullerene embedded in 4 equiv of a negatively curved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), 1, which could be viewed as a substructure of the hypothetical fullerene-schwarzite complex. On the basis of crystal structure, the stability of the complex (C60⊂(1)4) was studied by theoretical methods (ALMO-EDA), showing that the noncovalent interactions driven by dispersion forces is key for stabilizing the complex, which was further supported by noncovalent interactions (NCI) plots and Hirshfeld-surface analyses. Our findings of C60⊂(1)4 provide a perspective toward the development of novel sp2-carbon allotropes comprising multiple components.
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