Well-dispersed mesoporous hollow silica-fullerene nanoparticles with particle sizes of ∼50 nm have been successfully prepared by incorporating fullerene molecules into the silica framework followed by a selective etching method. The fabricated fluorescent silica-fullerene composite with high porosity demonstrates excellent performance in combined chemo/photodynamic therapy.

Based on ab initio quantum-chemical and density functional methods we determined the geometry, electronic and structural properties of three cluster-families: boron spheres, double-rings and quasi-planars up to a cluster size of 122 atoms. The most stable structure is the B100 sphere showing similar shape but more stability than the B80 cage recently proposed by Yakobson et al [PRL 98, 166804 (...

in this paper, we calculate the eccentric connectivity index and the eccentricity sequence of two infinite classes of fullerenes with 50 + 10k and 60 + 12k (k in n) carbon atoms.

Zero-dimensional fullerenes can modulate the biological behavior of a variety of cell lines. However, the effects and molecular mechanisms of proliferation and cardiomyogenic differentiation in brown adipose-derived stem cells (BADSCs) are still unclear. In this study, we report the initial biological effects of fullerene-C60 on BADSCs at different concentrations. Results suggest that fullerene...

The influence of crystallinity on exciton diffusion and fullerene distribution was investigated by blending amorphous and semicrystalline copolymers. We measured exciton diffusion and fluorescence quenching in such blends by dispersing fullerene molecules into them. We find that the diffusion length is more than two times higher in the semicrystalline copolymer than in the amorphous copolymer. ...

The review focuses current research in the rapidly developing chemistry of porphyrin-fullerene complexes, and highlights recent advances in the synthesis, properties, and potential applications of this family. An overview of the most popular methods to prepare porphyrin complexes with C60 fullerene exhibiting various types of linkage is given with the main focus on the Prato reaction and its mo...

We investigate the polarizability of trimetallic nitride endohedral fullerenes by partitioning the total polarizability into site specific components. This analysis indicates that the polarizability of the endohedral fullerene is essentially due to the outer fullerene cage and has insignificant contribution from the encapsulated unit. Thus, the outer fullerene cages effectively shield the encap...

In this paper, we introduce two combinatorial operations and a knot-theoretical approach for generation and description of fullerene architectures. The ‘Spherical rotating–vertex bifurcation’ operation applied to original fullerene polyhedra can lead to leapfrog fullerenes. However, the ‘Spherical stretching–vertex bifurcation’ operation applied to fullerene generates a family of related polyhe...

A series of donor-acceptor type co-crystals of fullerene (as the acceptor) and arylthio-substituted tetrathiafulvalene derivatives (Ar-S-TTF, as the donor) were prepared and their structural features were thoroughly investigated. The formation of co-crystals relies on the flexibility of Ar-S-TTF and the size matches between Ar-S-TTF and fullerene. Regarding their compositions, the studied co-cr...