Synthesis of thin, rectangular C60 nanorods using m-xylene as shape controller

• Thin, rectangular C60 nanorods in face-centered cubic structure are synthesized by using m-xylene as a shape controller. These unusual nanorods can easily grow on various substrates. The smallest nanorods have widths smaller than 30 nm. The nanorods are highly crystalline in single phase. A significant expansion of the lattice constant is also found in the C60 nanorods when their widths decrease below about 80 nm. 

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)

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C60

fullerenes

nanorods

Raman spectroscopy

m-xylene

synthesis

SEM

TEM

XRD

IR

AFM

evaporation

crystallization

Condensed matter physics

Kondenserade materiens fysik

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