Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Doryokuro Kakunenryo Kaihatsu Jigyodan

University of Tsukuba

Takeshi Akasaka

Hajime Miyazaki

Kaoru Kobayashi

Wataru Ando

Kazunori Yamamoto

Takeshi Takahashi

Hideyuki Funasaka

Shigeru Nagase

Tatsuhisa Kato

Yutaka Maeda

Takatsugu Wakahara

Yusei Maruyama

Toshiyasu Suzuki

A method of realizing selective separation of metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes and semiconducting carbon nanotubes from bundled carbon nanotubes; and obtaining of metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes separated at high purity through the above method. Metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes are dispersed one by one from bundled carbon nanotubes not only by the use of a difference in interaction with amine between metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes and semiconducting carbon nanotubes due to a difference in electrical properties between metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes and semiconducting carbon nanotubes but also by the use of the fact that an amine is an important factor in SWNTs separation. The thus dispersed carbon nanotubes are subjected to centrifugation, thereby attaining separation from non-dispersed semiconducting carbon nanotubes.

Method of carbon nanotube separation, dispersion liquid and carbon nanotube obtained by the separation method

A novel metal-encapsulated fullerene compound wherein a side chain is introduced in a metal-encapsulated fullerene is provided. A metal-encapsulated fullerene compound represented by the following structural formula (1) is synthesized by causing a disilirane derivative or digermirane derivative having the following structural formula (2) to react with a metal-encapsulation fullerene so as to add functional groups to the fullerene. ##STR1## Herein, M is an encapsulated metal atom, m is an integer from 1 to 3, n is an even number from 28 to 200, and R is a t-butyl group or an aromatic group having alkyl groups in the 2,6-positions, such as mesityl, 2,6-diethylphenyl or 2,6-dimethylphenyl groups.

Metal-encapsulated fullerene compound and a method of synthesizing such

There are provided a derivative of a metal-encapsulated fullerene having application as a functional material, superconducting material, electronics material or pharmaceutical material, and a method of synthesizing this derivative. The derivative of a metal-encapsulated fullerene having the following structure is synthesized by adding a substituted diazomethane to a metal-encapsulated fullerene and denitrifying in a solvent. ##STR1##

Metal-encapsulated fullerene derivative compound of and method for

A photosensitive member having stable electrophotographic characteristics can be constituted by an electroconductive support and a photosensitive layer disposed thereon and containing a novel fullerene compound having an organosilicon group as a charge-transporting substance. The fullerene compound may preferably have a polyhedral structure, particularly that of Buckminsterfullerene (C.sub.60) and be represented by the formula: C.sub.60 (A).sub.n . . . (2), wherein A denotes an organosilicon group represented by the formula: ##STR1## (wherein R.sub.1-1 and R.sub.1-2 independently denote a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted silyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted germyl group, a halogen atom, or a group constituting a substituted or unsubstituted ring by a mutual combination of R.sub.1-1 and R.sub.1-2 together with the Si atom in the formula); and n is an integer of 1 to 5, and a plurality of A in the case of n being two or larger can be the same or different with each other.

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, electrophotographic apparatus

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, eletrophotographic apparatus

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Takeshi Akasaka