Covalent Inter-Carbon-Allotrope Architectures Consisting of the Endohedral Fullerene Sc3 N@C80 and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Tao Wei; Oliver Martin; Muqing Chen; Shangfeng Yang; Frank Hauke; Andreas Hirsch

doi:10.1002/anie.201902595

Covalent Inter-Carbon-Allotrope Architectures Consisting of the Endohedral Fullerene Sc₃ N@C₈₀ and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2019 Jun 11;58(24):8058-8062. doi: 10.1002/anie.201902595. Epub 2019 May 17.

Authors

Tao Wei¹, Oliver Martin¹, Muqing Chen², Shangfeng Yang², Frank Hauke¹, Andreas Hirsch¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Joint Institute of Advanced Materials and Process (ZMP), Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Strasse 10, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
² Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.

PMID: 30977942
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201902595

Abstract

Using a reductive sidewall functionalization concept, we prepared for the first time a covalent inter-carbon-allotrope hybrid consisting of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and the endohedral fullerene Sc₃ N@C₈₀ . The new compound type was characterized through a variety of techniques including absorption spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, TG-MS, TG-GC-MS, and MALDI-TOF MS. HRTEM investigations were carried out to visualize this highly integrated architecture.

Keywords: HRTEM; Raman spectroscopy; carbon nanotubes; endohedral metallofullerene; hybrid materials.

Grants and funding

SFB 953/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft