Fullerene‐Containing Supramolecular Polymers
Fullerene‐Containing Supramolecular Polymers
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DOI:
10.1002/9783527628742.ch9
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2009-09
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T. Haino
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T. Haino
Fullerene is one of the most fascinating classes of carbon clusters [1–3]; it has attracted great interest due to its unique three-dimensional geometry and its outstanding magnetic [4–6], superconducting [7, 8], electrochemical [9–12] and photophysical [13–15] properties. The combination of fullerene chemistry and macromolecular chemistry provides an opportunity to create new fullerenecontaining polymers, which show promise for an enormously broad scope of applications [16–18]. Initial attempts to synthesize fullerene-containing polymers have involved polymerizing fullerene molecules directly through [2+ 2] cycloaddition [19–22]. However, the actual products formed–one-, two-and threedimensional polymeric architectures–are less processable than conventional polymers.More recently, intense research efforts have been devoted to developing [60] fullerene-polymer hybrids in which [60] fullerene molecules are incorporated onto polymer main chains or side chains [23–25]. These [60] fullerene-polymer hybrids have proven to be innovative materials, functioning as organic solar cells, magnets, photoconductors, optical-limiting devices and semiconductors [26–28]. Synthetically, the 30 highly reactive double bonds of a [60] fullerene molecule limit the possible polymerization reactions [24, 28–31]. However, supramolecular methods of incorporating [60] fullerene onto a polymer main chain can overcome this limitation.