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Beilstein-Institut, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, (15), p. 89-95, 2019

DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.15.10

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Fabrication of supramolecular cyclodextrin–fullerene nonwovens by electrospinning

Journal article published in 2019 by Hiroaki Yoshida ORCID, Ken Kikuta, Toshiyuki Kida
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Direct electrospinning of small molecules has great potential to fabricate a new class of fiber materials because this approach realizes the creation of various functional materials through the numerous molecular combinations. In this paper, we demonstrate a proof-of-concept to fabricate supramolecular fiber materials composed of cyclodextrin (CD)–fullerene inclusion complexes by electrospinning. Similar to the molecular state of fullerenes in solution, the resulting fibers include molecularly-dispersed fullerenes. We believe such a concept could be expanded to diverse host–guest complexes, opening up supramolecular solid materials science and engineering.