p-Sulfonatocalix[4]arene and imidazolium zwitterion stabilised nano-arrays of fullerene C60 and C70

Irene Ling; Yatimah Alias; Colin L. Raston

doi:10.1039/C1NJ20138G

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p-Sulfonatocalix[4]arene and imidazolium zwitterion stabilised nano-arrays of fullerene C₆₀ and C₇₀†

Irene Ling,*^a Yatimah Alias^a and Colin L. Raston*^b

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^a Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
E-mail: ireneling@siswa.um.edu.my, yatimah70@um.edu.my
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^b Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Australia
E-mail: clraston@chem.uwa.edu.au
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Tel: +61 86488 1572

Abstract

Stable colloidal suspensions of fullerene C₆₀ and C₇₀ in water are readily accessible by mechanical grinding a mixture of fullerene and p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene and/or imidazolium zwitterion followed by ultrasonication on the addition of water. The yellow and brown solutions for C₆₀ and C₇₀ respectively contain nano-arrays of fullerenes (40 to 130 nm in diameter) covered by a sheath of sulfonated calixarene, sulfonated imidazolium zwitterions or supermolecules of these two moieties.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C1NJ20138G
Article type: Paper
Submitted: 18 Feb 2011
Accepted: 15 Apr 2011
First published: 24 May 2011

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New J. Chem., 2011,35, 1549-1555

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p-Sulfonatocalix[4]arene and imidazolium zwitterion stabilised nano-arrays of fullerene C₆₀ and C₇₀

I. Ling, Y. Alias and C. L. Raston, New J. Chem., 2011, 35, 1549 DOI: 10.1039/C1NJ20138G

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