Mesostructured fullerene crystals through inverse polymeric micelle assembly

Abstract Mesostructured fullerene (C 60 ) film is synthesized using polymeric reverse micelles of poly(styrene- b -2-vinyl pyridine- b -ethylene oxide) (PS- b -PVP- b -PEO) triblock copolymer. Effective interaction between the electron donating pyridine units and electron accepting C 60 is the driving force to form composite micelles. Mesostructured C 60 with pore size of 20–25 nm shows highly crystallized walls in which the lattice fringes are coherently extended across several mesopores.