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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2011, Article ID 706293, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2011/706293 Research Article Structure and Morphology Characteristics of Fullerene C60 Nanotubes Fabricated with N -Methyl-2-pyrrolidone as a Good Solvent Yongtao Qu, Wenwen Yu, Shaocen Liang, Shaoxiang Li, Jian Zhao, and Guangzhe Piao Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Ministry of Education and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Qingdao University of Science Technology, Qingdao 266042, China Correspondence should be addressed to Guangzhe Piao, piao@ Received 11 July 2011; Revised 17 September 2011; Accepted 22 September 2011 Academic Editor: Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc Copyright © 2011 Yongtao Qu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Fullerene C60 nanotubes (FNTs) were prepared via liquid-liquid interfacial precipitation using N -methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) as solvent and isopropyl alcohol (IPA) as precipitation agent at 8◦C. C60 -saturated NMP solutions were exposed to visible light to promote the growth of FNTs. Scanning electron microscopy revealed that fibers prepared in the NMP/IPA system show three different morphologies. On the basis of the different morphologies of fullerene C60 nanofibers (FNFs), a possible growth mechanism to describe the formation process of FNTs is proposed. 1. Introduction In typical LLIP method, pyridine was used as a good solvent and IPA was used as a precipitation agent [9, 10]. Since the di