” The work is the first to manufacture a monolayer polymeric fullerene. It is of excellent significance, as it includes a brand-new member to the carbon product family,” ZHENG stated. “This work has actually opened up a brand-new research field in two-dimensional carbon material locations and the synthesis strategy could provide a special viewpoint in checking out brand-new carbon material.”.
The structure of monolayer polymeric C60 was checked out by single crystal X-ray diffraction and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). In this monolayer polymeric C60, cluster cages of C60 are covalently bonded with each other in an airplane, forming a regular geography that is distinct from that of traditional 2D products.
The monolayer polymeric C60 displays an interesting in-plane anisotropic residential or commercial property and a moderate bandgap of 1.6 eV, which makes it a prospective candidate for use in electronic gadgets.
” The work is the very first to manufacture a monolayer polymeric fullerene. It is of fantastic significance, as it includes a brand-new member to the carbon material family,” ZHENG stated. “This work has actually opened up a new research field in two-dimensional carbon product areas and the synthesis strategy might provide a special point of view in checking out new carbon material.”.
Reference: “Synthesis of a monolayer fullerene network” by Lingxiang Hou, Xueping Cui, Bo Guan, Shaozhi Wang, Ruian Li, Yunqi Liu, Daoben Zhu and Jian Zheng, 15 June 2022, Nature.DOI: 10.1038/ s41586-022-04771-5.
The study, entitled “Synthesis of a monolayer fullerene network,” was published in Nature. The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and CAS.
Illustration of the structure of monolayer polymeric C60. Credit: Ella Maru Studio
Artificial carbon allotropes are appealing due to their remarkable homes and potential applications. Scientists have devoted decades to synthesizing brand-new types of carbon materials. A two-dimensional fullerene, which possesses a special structure, has actually not been effectively synthesized up until now.
Just recently, researchers established a new interlayer bonding cleavage method to prepare a two-dimensional monolayer polymeric fullerene. The research group was led by Prof. ZHENG Jian from the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS).
The researchers prepared magnesium intercalated C60 bulk crystals as the precursor to the exfoliation response. They then made use of a ligand-assisted cation exchange strategy to cleave the interlayer bonds into bulk crystals, which resulted in the bulk crystals being exfoliated into monolayer nanosheets.