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Improved Spectrophotometric Analysis of Fullerenes C60 and C70 in High-solubility Organic Solvents

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Fullerenes are among a number of recently discovered carbon allotropes that exhibit unique and versatile properties. The analysis of these materials is of great importance and interest. We present previously unreported spectroscopic data for C60 and C70 fullerenes in high-solubility solvents, including error bounds, so as to allow reliable colorimetric analysis of these materials. The Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law is found to be valid at all wavelengths. The measured data were highly reproducible, and yielded high-precision molar absorbance coefficients for C60 and C70 in o-xylene and o-dichlorobenzene, which both exhibit a high solubility for these fullerenes, and offer the prospect of improved extraction efficiency. A photometric method for a C60/C70 mixture analysis was validated with standard mixtures, and subsequently improved for real samples by correcting for light scattering, using a power-law fit. The method was successfully applied to the analysis of C60/C70 mixtures extracted from fullerene soot.

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Törpe, A., Belton, D.J. Improved Spectrophotometric Analysis of Fullerenes C60 and C70 in High-solubility Organic Solvents. ANAL. SCI. 31, 125–130 (2015). https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.31.125

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