Mesoporous fullerene C70 cubes with highly crystalline frameworks and unusually enhanced photoluminescence properties

Partha Bairi; Tohru Tsuruoka; Somobrata Acharya; Qingmin Ji; Jonathan P. Hill; Katsuhiko Ariga; Yusuke Yamauchi; Lok Kumar Shrestha

doi:10.1039/C7MH00954B

Mesoporous fullerene C₇₀ cubes with highly crystalline frameworks and unusually enhanced photoluminescence properties†

Partha Bairi,^a Tohru Tsuruoka,*^a Somobrata Acharya,^b Qingmin Ji,

^ac Jonathan P. Hill,

^a Katsuhiko Ariga,

^ad Yusuke Yamauchi

*^efg and Lok Kumar Shrestha

*^a

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^a International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Ibaraki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
E-mail: TSURUOKA.Tohru@nims.go.jp, SHRESTHA.Lokkumar@nims.go.jp

^b Center for Advanced Materials (CAM), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 0032, India

^c Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, No. 200, Xiaolingwei, P. R. China

^d Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan

^e Department of Plant & Environmental New Resources, Kyung Hee University, 1732 Deogyeong-daero, Giheunggu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 446-701, South Korea

^f Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM), University of Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia

^g School of Chemical Engineering & Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
E-mail: yusuke@uow.edu.au, y.yamauchi@uq.edu.au

Abstract

Here we report the synthesis of new mesoporous crystalline fullerene (C₇₀) cubes (MCFCs) at a liquid–liquid interface between tert-butyl alcohol (TBA) and a solution of C₇₀ in mesitylene under mild heat treatment. The highly crystalline pore walls of the MCFCs result in enhanced electrochemical and photoluminescence properties, which differ from pristine C₇₀ and crystalline C₇₀ cubes lacking mesopores.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7MH00954B
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 11 Nov 2017
Accepted: 10 Jan 2018
First published: 26 Jan 2018

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Mater. Horiz., 2018,5, 285-290

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P. Bairi, T. Tsuruoka, S. Acharya, Q. Ji, J. P. Hill, K. Ariga, Y. Yamauchi and L. K. Shrestha, Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5, 285 DOI: 10.1039/C7MH00954B

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