The search for new materials for hydrogen storage is important for the development of future hydrogen energy applications. In this Thesis, it is shown that new materials with interesting properties can be synthesized by the reaction of hydrogen with various nanocarbon precursors. The thesis consists of two parts. The first part is devoted to studies of hydrogen storage in some metalorganic fram...

The fullerene era was started in 1985 with the discovery of the stable C60 cluster and its interpretation as a cage structure with the familiar shape of a soccer ball [1]. An explosive growth in fullerene research was triggered in 1990 by the development of a method to produce fullerenes in bulk quantities [2]. Subsequently, the structural, electronic, and vibrational properties of many fullere...

The spectroscopic properties of the 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-piperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO) radicalderivatives of the fullerene (C60) were theoretically investigated. The ground state optimizedstructures of the radical adducts of the fullerene were calculated by using DFT (B3LYP) with 6-31G(d) level. It was concluded that a 6-6 ring junction of C60 moiety generally covalently links to thepiperidine ring ...

Helium droplets were co-doped with C60 and ammonia, water or carbon dioxide and the resulting cluster size distributions of the produced cationic complexes are presented. Mass spectra obtained by electron ionization were recorded with high mass resolution of m/m ~ 6000 (FWHM). Series of C60(H2O)n, C60(NH3)n and C60(CO2)n complexes for n up to 20 molecules attached to the C60 were observed amon...

Oxidative stress induced by excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been implicated in the etiology of many human diseases. It has been reported that fullerenes and some of their derivatives-carboxyfullerenes-exhibits a strong free radical scavenging capacity. The permeation of C60-fullerene and its amphiphilic derivatives-C3-tris-malonic-C60-fullerene (C3) and D3-tris-malonyl...

Fullerene-containing materials have the ability to store and release electrical energy. Therefore, fullerenes may ultimately find use in high-voltage equipment devices or as super capacitors for high electric energy storage due to this ease of manipulating their excellent dielectric properties and their high volume resistivity. A series of structured fullerene (C60) polymer nanocomposites were ...

Individual fullerene molecules were observed and sized using high resolution transmission electron microscopy. Fullerene C60 molecules were tethered by chemical bonding to carbon black particles to facilitate HRTEM imaging and sizing of known fullerenes. HRTEM analysis of soot samples from a fullerene-forming flame revealed the presence of a range of fullerenes from C36 to C176 and larger fulle...

An open-cage C60 tetraketone with a large opening was able to encapsulate N2 and CO2 molecules after its exposure to high pressures of N2 and CO2 gas. A subsequent selective reduction of one of the four carbonyl groups on the rim of the opening induced a contraction of the opening (→2) and trapped the guest molecules inside 2. The thus-obtained host-guest complexes N2@2 and CO2@2 could be isola...

Two diacetylide-triphenylamine hole-transport materials (HTM) with varying redox potential have been applied in planar junction TiO2-[CH3NH3]PbI3-xClx solar cells leading to high power-conversion efficiencies up to 8.8%. More positive oxidation potential of the HTM gives higher VOC and lower JSC illustrating the role of matching energy levels, however both HTMs gave efficient cells despite a di...

Two bridged triphenylamine-triphenylsilane (BTPASi) hybrids have been designed as host materials for phosphorescent OLEDs; devices with the novel host materials achieve maximum external quantum efficiencies as high as 15.4% for blue and 19.7% for green electrophosphorescence.