Superstructured assembly of nanocarbons: fullerenes, nanotubes, and graphene

Z Li, Z Liu, H Sun, C Gao - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Carbon is one of the basic elements for life on Earth. It exists in diverse allotropic forms while
being different in chemical and physical properties. The best well-known natural allotropes …

Dendron-mediated self-assembly, disassembly, and self-organization of complex systems

BM Rosen, CJ Wilson, DA Wilson, M Peterca… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
1.1 Background Dendrimers and dendrons are architectural motifs synthesized by either
divergent or convergent iterative methods, and therefore, they provide monodisperse …

Cluster-assembled materials

SA Claridge, AW Castleman Jr, SN Khanna… - ACS …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Cluster-assembled materials offer the ability to tune component properties, lattice
parameters, and thus coupling of physical properties through the careful selection and …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and breakthroughs in recent research on self-assembly

K Ariga, JP Hill, MV Lee, A Vinu, R Charvet… - … and technology of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The controlled fabrication of nanometer-scale objects is without doubt one of the central
issues in current science and technology. However, existing fabrication techniques suffer …

Ball-, bowl-, and belt-shaped conjugated systems and their complexing abilities: exploration of the concave− convex π− π interaction

T Kawase, H Kurata - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
Since the discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60 (Chart 1) by Kroto, Smalley, and Curl, 1-4 a
number of reports concerning new carbon allotropes having a variety of threedimensional …

Self-assembly of fullerene C 60-based amphiphiles in solutions

J Li, M Chen, S Zhou, H Li, J Hao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Fullerene C60 is an all-carbon cage molecule with rich physicochemical properties. It is
highly symmetric and hydrophobic, which can be used as a building block for the …

Materials chemistry of fullerene C 60 derivatives

AM Lopez, A Mateo-Alonso, M Prato - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the increasing interest of the scientific community in carbon nanotubes and
graphene, fullerene C60 still plays an important role in the family of nanocarbons. A quarter …

Self-assembled and nonassembled alkylated-fullerene materials

F Lu, EA Neal, T Nakanishi - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Fullerene (C60), a π-conjugated cage molecule consisting of 60 sp2-hybridized
carbon atoms that are arranged into perfect icosahedral symmetry, is one of the most …

Vortex-aligned fullerene nanowhiskers as a scaffold for orienting cell growth

V Krishnan, Y Kasuya, Q Ji, M Sathish… - … Applied Materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A versatile method for the rapid fabrication of aligned fullerene C60 nanowhiskers
(C60NWs) at the air–water interface is presented. This method is based on the vortex motion …