Fullerene chemistry stands as a vibrant field within materials science, characterised by the study and modification of spherical carbon allotropes, most notably C60. These molecules serve as a ...

Fullerene chemistry continues to be a vibrant field of research, offering insights into the unique structural and electronic properties of carbon-based nanomaterials. At its core, fullerenes are ...

Truncated icosahedron: technical term for a soccer ball in the United States, a football everywhere else. The scientists who vaporized the graphite to produce C 60 named the new carbon allotrope ...

Professor Zaifa Shi's team at Xiamen University developed an ultra-high temperature flash vacuum pyrolysis (UT-FVP) device to form giant fullerenes from single-carbon molecules within a short time (15 ...