On the Origin of C-60 Fullerene Solubility in Aqueous Solution

Prylutskyy YI; Petrenko VI; Ivankov OI; Kyzyma OA; Bulavin LA; Litsis OO; Evstigneev MP; Cherepanov VV; Naumovets AG; Ritter U

Langmuir, Vol.30, No.14, 3967-3970, 2014

Prylutskyy YI, Petrenko VI, Ivankov OI, Kyzyma OA, Bulavin LA, Litsis OO, Evstigneev MP, Cherepanov VV, Naumovets AG, Ritter U

In this work, we report that the surface hydroxylation of C-60 molecules is the most likely mechanism for pristine C-60 fullerenes/C-60 fullerene aggregate stabilization in water, being independent of the method of C-60 fullerene aqueous solution preparation.