Advanced materials: fluorous fullerenes and nanotubes

This paper describes the preparation and properties of several fluorous-substituted fullerene and fullerene nanotube materials. Several of these are quite fluorous soluble and, due to the insulating effect of -CH2- groups between the perfluorocarbon pony tails and the fullerene ring system, they exhibit electronic and photophysical properties similar to non-fluorous fullerenes. Certain unique applications of these hybrid materials are discussed. (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.