A new twist for bucky balls: A fluorous fullerene amphiphile lacking the conventional polar head / nonpolar tail motif forms a vesicle in water (see picture, F green, C gray), mediated by the cohesive power of fullerene. The fluorous moiety covers the vesicle surface, and vesicle solutions dissolve perfluorooctane. Unlike lipid vesicles, the fluorous vesicle is very robust and retains its spherical shape even on a solid substrate under high vacuum.
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Homma et al. (2010) studied this question.
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