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FullerenesFullerene Product Portfolio
From left to right: C60, C70, C76/C78, C84
in solution.
IDD offers a wide range of fullerene products & purities that can be tailored to customer applications for the best value and performance. Our product slate includes fullerenic black, individual fullerenes and fullerene derivatives.
The body of research on fullerene black is small compared to fullerenes and less is known about the physical properties and the potential for application. Certain features however show promise for the use of fullerene black as an improvement over carbon black in various applications.
The distinguishing feature of fullerene black compared to typical carbon blacks is that the carbon layer planes of fullerene black are curved and fullerene-like in nature. This curvature is thought to explain the observed higher reactivity of fullerene black compared to conventional carbon black. This feature offers potential for use in various applications, such as catalysts, catalyst supports and rubber additives.
Left: 100nm to 1µ. Right: 1µ to 2µ.
Fullerene black made by the electric arc process generally contains 7% to 9% fullerenes. IDD's combustion-based process considerably expands this with a range from 2% fullerenes to 98%. What we today term Fullerenic Black can be controlled in our process from 2% to 40% fullerenes. Higher concentrations of fullerenes are generally purified.
IDD owns the only cost-effective manufacturing method (combustion-based process) for producing fullerene black, known today as II-G.
Purified Fullerenes
The most common fullerene is the classic "BuckminsterFullerene" with 60 carbon atoms. It is the most abundant form, followed by C70, C76/78, C84 and finally the higher fullerenes of C90 and above.
For particularly demanding applications, we offer sublimed fullerenes with 99.95% purity.
Please see our product guide for more information.