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Cluster Origin of Solvent Features of Fullerenes, Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Nanocones, and Nanohorns

Cluster Origin of Solvent Features of Fullerenes, Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Nanocones, and Nanohorns

Francisco Torrens, Gloria Castellano
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 57
ISBN13: 9781466616073|ISBN10: 1466616075|EISBN13: 9781466616080
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1607-3.ch001
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Torrens, Francisco, and Gloria Castellano. "Cluster Origin of Solvent Features of Fullerenes, Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Nanocones, and Nanohorns." Nanoscience and Advancing Computational Methods in Chemistry: Research Progress, edited by Eduardo A. Castro and A.K. Haghi, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 1-57. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1607-3.ch001

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Torrens, F. & Castellano, G. (2012). Cluster Origin of Solvent Features of Fullerenes, Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Nanocones, and Nanohorns. In E. Castro & A. Haghi (Eds.), Nanoscience and Advancing Computational Methods in Chemistry: Research Progress (pp. 1-57). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1607-3.ch001

Chicago

Torrens, Francisco, and Gloria Castellano. "Cluster Origin of Solvent Features of Fullerenes, Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Nanocones, and Nanohorns." In Nanoscience and Advancing Computational Methods in Chemistry: Research Progress, edited by Eduardo A. Castro and A.K. Haghi, 1-57. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1607-3.ch001

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the existence of single-wall carbon nanocones (SWNCs), especially nanohorns (SWNHs) in organic solvents in the form of clusters. A theory is developed based on a bundlet model describing their distribution function by size. Phenomena have a unified explanation in bundlet model in which free energy of an SWNC, involved in a cluster, is combined from two components: a volume one, proportional to number of molecules n in a cluster, and a surface one proportional to n1/2. A bundlet model enables describing distribution function of SWNC clusters by size. From purely geometrical differences, bundlet (SWNCs) and droplet (fullerene) models predict different behaviours. The SWNCs of various disclinations are investigated via energetic–structural analyses. Several SWNC’s terminations are studied which are different among one another because of the type of closing structure and arrangement. Packing efficiencies and interaction-energy parameters of SWNCs/SWNHs are intermediate between fullerene and single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) clusters.

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