Evidence of entropically driven C60 fullerene aggregation in aqueous solution

Dmitry P Voronin; Anatoly S Buchelnikov; Viktor V Kostjukov; Sergii V Khrapatiy; Dariusz Wyrzykowski; Jacek Piosik; Yuriy I Prylutskyy; Uwe Ritter; Maxim P Evstigneev

doi:10.1063/1.4867902

Evidence of entropically driven C60 fullerene aggregation in aqueous solution

J Chem Phys. 2014 Mar 14;140(10):104909. doi: 10.1063/1.4867902.

Authors

Dmitry P Voronin¹, Anatoly S Buchelnikov², Viktor V Kostjukov¹, Sergii V Khrapatiy³, Dariusz Wyrzykowski⁴, Jacek Piosik⁵, Yuriy I Prylutskyy³, Uwe Ritter⁶, Maxim P Evstigneev¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Sevastopol National Technical University, Sevastopol 99053, Ukraine.
² Department of Biology and Chemistry, Belgorod State University, Belgorod 308015, Russia.
³ Department of Biophysics, ESC "Institute of Biology", Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv 01601, Ukraine.
⁴ Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland.
⁵ Laboratory of Biophysics, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG-MUG, Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdańsk, Poland.
⁶ Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau 98693, Germany.

PMID: 24628207
DOI: 10.1063/1.4867902

Abstract

In the present work, we report the first experimental evidence of entropically driven C60 fullerene aggregation in aqueous solution, occurring with nearly zero enthalpy change.

MeSH terms

Calorimetry
Entropy
Fullerenes / chemistry*
Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
Light
Microscopy, Atomic Force
Scattering, Radiation
Solutions
Temperature
Water / chemistry*

Substances

Fullerenes
Solutions
Water
fullerene C60