When metal clusters meet carbon cages: endohedral clusterfullerenes
Fullerenes have the characteristic of a hollow interior, and this unique feature triggers intuitive inspiration to entrap atoms, ions or clusters inside the carbon cage in the form of endohedral fullerenes. In particular, upon entrapping an otherwise unstable metal cluster into a carbon cage, the so...
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| Published in | Chemical Society reviews Vol. 46; no. 16; pp. 55 - 558 |
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| Main Authors | , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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England
14.08.2017
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| Summary: | Fullerenes have the characteristic of a hollow interior, and this unique feature triggers intuitive inspiration to entrap atoms, ions or clusters inside the carbon cage in the form of endohedral fullerenes. In particular, upon entrapping an otherwise unstable metal cluster into a carbon cage, the so-called endohedral clusterfullerenes fulfil the mutual stabilization of the inner metal cluster and the outer fullerene cage with a specific isomeric structure which is often unstable as an empty fullerene. A variety of metal clusters have been reported to form endohedral clusterfullerenes, including metal nitrides, carbides, oxides, sulfides, cyanides and so on, making endohedral clusterfullerenes the most variable and intriguing branch of endohedral fullerenes. In this review article, we present an exhaustive review on all types of endohedral clusterfullerenes reported to date, including their discoveries, syntheses, separations, molecular structures and properties as well as their potential applications in versatile fields such as biomedicine, energy conversion, and so on. At the end, we present an outlook on the prospect of endohedral clusterfullerenes.
Endohedral clusterfullerenes fulfil the mutual stabilization of the inner metal cluster and the outer fullerene cage. |
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| Bibliography: | Tao Wei obtained his PhD under the supervision of Professor Shangfeng Yang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2015. Then he worked as an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellow at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. His research interests include synthesis, isolation, characterization and functionalization of novel endohedral fullerenes and higher fullerenes. He was awarded "CAS Excellent PhD Dissertations" in 2016. Shangfeng Yang received his PhD from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2003. He then joined Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellow and a Guest Scientist. In Dec 2007 he joined the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) as a full professor of Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, sponsored by the "Hundreds of Talents Programme" of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include the synthesis of fullerene-based nanocarbons toward applications in energy conversion and storage. He was awarded "Young Faculty Award" of USTC Alumni Foundation (2010). Fei Jin was born in Anhui province, China in 1990. In 2014, he received his Bachelor's Degree in School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. He then joined the group of Professor Shangfeng Yang in the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) as a PhD candidate. His current research interests are the synthesis, isolation and characterization of novel endohedral fullerenes. ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-3 content type line 23 ObjectType-Review-1 |
| ISSN: | 0306-0012 1460-4744 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c6cs00498a |