How to create novel desired structures by rational design of building blocks represents a significant challenge in materials science. Here we report a conceptually new design principle for creating supracolloidal fullerene-like cages through the self-assembly of soft patchy particles interacting via directional nonbonded interactions by mimicking non-planar sp2 hybridized carbon atoms in C60. O...

The instability of hybrid perovskite materials due to water and moisture arises as one major challenge to be addressed before any practical application of the demonstrated high efficiency perovskite solar cells. Here we report a facile strategy that can simultaneously enhance the stability and efficiency of p-i-n planar heterojunction-structure perovskite devices. Crosslinkable silane molecules...

In this paper, LDPC Codes based on defected fullerene graphs have been generated. And it is found that the codes generated are fast in encoding and better in terms of error performance on AWGN Channel. Keywords—LDPC Codes, Fullerene Graphs, Defected Fullerene Graphs.

Background and Objective: Occurrence of oxidative stress in uncontrolled diabetes mellitus affects spermatogenesis and the testicular functions. As the promising antioxidant activities of fullerene C60 nanomaterial have been demonstrated by previous reports, the current study aimed to determine the fullerene C60 effects on the markers of oxidative stress damage in testes of streptozotocin-induc...

While several recent reports have described the toxicity of water-soluble C60 fullerene nanoparticles, none have reported the toxicity resulting from the inhalation exposures to C60 fullerene nanoparticles or microparticles. To address this knowledge gap, we exposed male rats to C60 fullerene nanoparticles (2.22 mg/m3, 55 nm diameter) and microparticles (2.35 mg/m3, 0.93 microm diameter) for 3 ...

After discovery of fullerenes there were offered a wide variety of ways of their practical use. Nowadays a lot of patents in the field of fullerene chemistry concern use of fullerenes and nanotubes in semiconductor and nanoeletronic devices, e.g. photodiodes, transistors, sun batteries. Due to high electronegativity, fullerene C60 can easily form charge-transfer complexes in which it acts as ac...

Amphiphilic γ-cyclodextrin–fullerene 2:1 complexes (C L FC H complexes) were prepared by high-speed vibration milling of lipophilic tail-grafted γ-cyclodextrin (γ-CD), hydrophilic γ-CD and fullerene C 60 . The transamidation γ-CD–fullerene complex having two...

In this work, we report the functionalization of flat Si(100) surfaces with a calix[8]arene derivative through a thermal hydrosilylation process, followed by docking with [60]fullerene. Chemical grafting of calix[8]arene on silicon substrates was evaluated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, whereas host-guest immobilization of fullerene was demonstrated by atomic force microscopy and sessile ...

  Purpose: To evaluate the effect of fullerene on chemical properties of naphazoline drug in   water by density functional theory (DFT) methods.   Materials and Methods: Naphazoline belongs to the imidazoline class of sympathomimetics.   The present study on naphazoline drug and its fullerene connected form were carried out using   computerized calculations of Gaussian program in b3lyp/6-31g le...

To elucidate important parameters for in vitro toxicity assessment of C(60) and C(70) fullerene colloidal particles, experiments were carried out in culture medium using pulsed field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance (PFG-NMR), asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation (AFFFF), and dynamic light scattering (DLS) methods. First, the amounts of total and bulk bovine serum albumin (BSA) molecul...