Highly Enhanced Luminescence from Single-Crystalline C60·1m-xylene Nanorods

• Single-crystalline C60â1m-xylene nanorods with a hexagonal structure were successfully synthesizedby evaporating a C60 solution in m-xylene at room temperature. The ratio of the length to the diameterof the nanorods can be controlled in the range of 10 to over 1000 for different applications. Thephotoluminescence (PL) intensity of the nanorods is about 2 orders of magnitude higher than that forpristine C60 crystals in air. Both UV and Raman results indicate that there is no charge transfer betweenC60 and m-xylene. It was found that the interaction between C60 and m-xylene molecules is of the vander Waals type. This interaction reduces the icosahedral symmetry of C60 molecule and induces strongPL from the solvate nanorods.

Subject headings

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

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

Keyword

Fullerenes

C60

photoluminescence

xylene

solvate

XRD

SEM

TEM

TGA

IR

Raman spectroscopy

Condensed matter physics

Kondenserade materiens fysik

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