Self-assembly of endohedral metallofullerenes: a decisive role of cooling gas and metal–carbon bonding† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Additional information on metal–carbon bonding and MD simulations. See DOI: 10.1039/c5nr08645k Click here for additional data file.

Molecular dynamics simulations of the endohedral metallofullerene formation reveal a crucial role of the cooling gas (He) and the strength of metal–carbon bonding in the formation mechanism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Deng, Qingming, Heine, Thomas, Irle, Stephan, Popov, Alexey A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4847527/