2013/08/06 by Judy Chen, Yongjun Li, Michael Frunzi +4 · 24 citations
Chemistry · Materials Science · #Fullerene Chemistry and Applications #Graphene research and applications #Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds #Molecule #Fullerene #Spin (aerodynamics) #Carbon fibers #Materials science #Chemical physics #Atomic physics #Crystallography #Chemistry #Physics #Organic chemistry
paper · doi:10.1098/rsta.2011.0628
published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 371(1998), 20110628 (Royal Society)
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Spectroscopic studies of recently synthesized endofullerenes, in which H₂, H₂O and other atoms and small molecules are trapped in cages of carbon atoms, have shown that although the trapped molecules interact relatively weakly with the internal environment they are nevertheless susceptible to appropriately applied external perturbations. These properties have been exploited to isolate and study samples of H₂ in C₆₀ and other fullerenes that are highly enriched in the para spin isomer. Several strategies for spin-isomer enrichment, potential extensions to other endofullerenes and possible applications of these materials are discussed.