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Fullerene attachment to sharp-angle nanocones mediated by covalent oxygen bridging

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Suarez-Martinez, Irene
Mittal, Jagiwan
Allouche, Hatem
Pacheco, Marquidia
Monthioux, Marc
Razafinimanana, Manitra
Ewels, Chris
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2013
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Suarez-Martinez, Irene and Mittal, Jagiwan and Allouche, Hatem and Pacheco, Marquidia and Monthioux, Marc and Razafinimanana, Manitra and Ewels, Christopher. 2013. Fullerene attachment to sharp-angle nanocones mediated by covalent oxygen bridging. Carbon 54: pp. 149-154.
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Carbon. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Carbon, Vol. 54 (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.11.014

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Using a combination of transmission electron microscopy and density functional modeling we examine covalent bridging between carbon nanoforms, focusing on fullerene attachment to carbon nanocones (nanohorns). We show that oxygen mediates covalent cross-linking between carbon nanoforms, analogously to oxygen-mediated fullerene dimerisation (C120O). We confirm this theoretically and experimentally for fullerenes bonded to nanocone tips. Oxygen bridging only occurs in systems with relatively localized double bond character, i.e., in the case of nanocones, bridging only occurs between fullerenes and high angle nanocone tips.