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Does the Like Dissolves Like Rule Hold for Fullerene and Ionic Liquids?

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Over 150 solvents have been probed to dissolve light fullerenes, but with a quite moderate success. We uncover unusual mutual polarizability of C60 fullerene and selected room-temperature ionic liquids, which can be applied in numerous applications, e.g. to significantly promote solubility/miscibility of the highly hydrophobic C60 molecule. We report electron density and molecular dynamics analysis supported by the state-of-the-art hybrid density functional theory and empirical simulations with a specifically refined potential. The analysis suggests the workability of the proposed scheme and opens a new direction to obtain well-dispersed fullerene containing systems. A range of common molecular solvents and novel ionic solvents are compared to 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate.

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The computations have been partially supported by the Danish Center for Scientific Computing (Horseshoe 5). C. M. and E. E. F. thank Brazilian agencies FAPESP and CNPq for support.

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  1. MEMPHYS - Center for Biomembrane Physics, University of Southern Denmark, 5230, Odense M, Denmark

    Vitaly V. Chaban

  2. Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, SP, 09210-270, Brazil

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  3. Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, 12231-280, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

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Chaban, V.V., Maciel, C. & Fileti, E.E. Does the Like Dissolves Like Rule Hold for Fullerene and Ionic Liquids?. J Solution Chem 43, 1019–1031 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10953-014-0155-6

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