The behavior of fullerenes Cn (n≥60) in multicomponent solvents, the
physicochemical mechanisms of fullerene molecules’ self-aggregation, and the
features of fullerene aggregates’ growth and size stabilization in different solutions
make them very attractive for practical interest in modern nanophysics. Aggregates
of fullerenes, in its turn, can be used in photodynamic therapy for treatment of
oncological diseases, in solar energetics for making solar cells, in hydrogen
energetics for safe storage gases, in optoelectronics as guaranteed elements of the
modern semiconductor devices etc.
This work describes results of investigations of clusterization of fullerene C70
molecules in solutions of fullerene in the mixture benzene and tetrahydrofuran at
room temperature. We have used the atomic force microscope (AFM) Solver Next
(NT-MDT, Russia) with an atomic resolution to analyses surface features and
dimensional characteristics of (C70
)m nanoaggregates synthesized in solutions, m is
a number of individual molecules of C70 in nanoaggregate.