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[revenant]

Is exposing c60/oo to ultrasonic vibrations an effective means of breaking up possible aggregates before or/and during centrifuging process, http://www.hielscher.com/nano_01.htm

The ultrasonic breakup of the agglomerate structures in aqueous and non-aqueous suspensions allows utilizing the full potential of nanosize materials.

[Turnbuckle]

Ultrasonic energy would certainly dissolve the C60 quickly, but the high temperatures (thousands of degrees) in the imploding bubbles would result in a different product than in the rat paper. So you take your chances that it would work the same way as in the paper.

[revenant]

A low power unit on a dispersion setting and not an emulsification setting may work.

Edited by revenant, 05 October 2013 - 05:46 PM.

[revenant]

Maybe something like this could be useful rather than the unit in the first post. http://www.sonicator...ispersion.shtml

[niner]

Chemists use ultrasound to speed up reactions, sometimes by as much as six orders of magnitude (i.e. a million times faster). You really have no idea what will happen if you sonicate c60. I wouldn't do it.