Nano-Confined Synthesis of Fullerene Mesoporous Carbon (C60-FMC) with Bimodal Pores: XRD, TEM, Structural Properties, NMR, and Protein Immobilization

Mohammad A Wahab; Farzana Darain; Azharul Karim; Jorge N Beltramini

doi:10.17352/2455-3492.000006

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Nano-Confined Synthesis of Fullerene Mesoporous Carbon (C60-FMC) with Bimodal Pores: XRD, TEM, Structural Properties, NMR, and Protein Immobilization

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Nano-Confined Synthesis of Fullerene Mesoporous Carbon (C60-FMC) with Bimodal Pores: XRD, TEM, Structural Properties, NMR, and Protein Immobilization

Mohammad A Wahab, Farzana Darain, Azharul Karim and Jorge N Beltramini

International Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine, Vol.1(2), pp.022-029

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17352/2455-3492.000006

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Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)

fullerene mesoporous carbon

nanohard template

protein immobilization

carbon

bovine serum albumin

Nanoconfined synthesized crystalline fullerene mesoporous carbon (C60-FMC) with bimodal pore architectures of 4.95 nm and 10-15 nm pore sizes characterized by XRD, TEM, nitrogen adsorption/ desorption isotherm and solid-state NMR, and the material was used for protein immobilization. The solid-state 13C NMR spectrum of C60-FMC along with XRD, BET and TEM confirms the formation of fullerene mesoporous carbon structure C60-FMC. The immobilization of albumin (from bovine serum, BSA) protein biomolecule in a buffer solution at pH 4.7 was used to determine the adsorption properties of the C60-FMC material and its structural changes investigated by FT-IR. We demonstrated that the C60-FMC with high surface area and pore volumes have excellent adsorption capacity towards BSA protein molecule. Protein adsorption experiments clearly showed that the C60-FMC with bimodal pore architectures (4.95 nm and 10-15 nm) are suitable material to be used for protein adsorption.

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Title: Nano-Confined Synthesis of Fullerene Mesoporous Carbon (C60-FMC) with Bimodal Pores: XRD, TEM, Structural Properties, NMR, and Protein Immobilization
Authors: Mohammad A Wahab (Author) - University of Queensland
Farzana Darain (Author) - University of Queensland
Azharul Karim (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Jorge N Beltramini (Author) - University of Queensland
Publication details: International Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine, Vol.1(2), pp.022-029
Publisher: Peertechz
Date published: 2015
DOI: 10.17352/2455-3492.000006
ISSN: 2455-3492
Copyright note: Copyright © 2015 Wahab MA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451073102621
Output Type: Journal article

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