Study of Molecular-Colloidal Solutions of C_(60) Fullerenes in Water by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

摘要

Since the discovery of fullerenes (1985) their biological activity was a question of particular interest.As a consequence,biological effects of fullerenes were actively studied for the last 10 years.This kind of investigations is connected mainly with the so-called "water-soluble" fullerenes-hydrophilic chemical derivatives of fullerenes.This approach was determined by a commonly accepted opinion that fullerenes are typical hydrophobic molecules and cannot form true solutions in water.However,starting from 1994 Andrievsky G.V and co-workers developed [1,2] a method of fabricating aqueous molecular-colloidal solutions of C_(60) fullerene (C_(60)FWS) with the properties of both true and colloidal solutions simultaneously.