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News Fullerenes

• How molecular footballs burst in an X-ray laser beam
  

  An international research team has observed in real time how football molecules made of carbon atoms burst in the beam of an X-ray laser. The study shows the temporal course of the bursting process, which takes less than a trillionth of a second, and is important for the analysis of sensitive protei more

• Fullerenes Bridge Conductive Gap in Organic Photovoltaics
  

  Organic photovoltaics have achieved remarkably high efficiencies, but finding optimum combinations of materials for high-performance organic solar cells, which are also economically competitive, still presents a challenge. Researchers from the United States and China have now developed an innovative more

• Golden Ball in a Golden Cage
  

  Researchers have synthesized a tiny structure from 32 gold atoms. This nanocluster has a core of 12 gold atoms surrounded by a shell of 20 additional gold atoms. As the scientists report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the unusual stability of this cluster results from electronic interactions with more

Videos Fullerenes

Harry Kroto and C60

Remembering Sir Harry Kroto, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of C60.... a man with a passion for science and a mischievous streak! more

Infographics Fullerenes

Sir Harry Kroto & Buckminsterfullerene

Over the weekend, the news of Sir Harry Kroto’s passing filtered slowly through the internet. Perhaps the best summary of his life and achievements was already written by Kroto himself, so here we take a brief look at his most acclaimed discovery: that of the amusingly named form of carbon, buckmins more

Publications Fullerenes

• Theoretical Characterization of Supramolecular Complexes Formed by Fullerenes and Dimeric Porphyrins.

  We have employed the M06-2X, PBE-D3BJ and B3LYP-D3BJ methods to study the hosting of fullerenes by 15 single, dimeric and trimeric porphyrins. We found a poor correlation between the experimental association constants and the calculated free energy changes in solution. Surprisingly, the correlation more

• Molecular organizations of conical mesogenic fullerenes

  We have studied liquid crystal phases formed by fullerenes functionalized with mesogenic groups yielding a cone-shaped molecular structure. We have modelled these shuttlecock-like molecules with a set of Gay–Berne particles grafted with flexible springs to a spherical core and we have studied, using more

• Fullerene size controls the selective complexation of [11]CPP with pristine and endohedral fullerenes

  The ability of the carbon nanoring [11]cycloparaphenylene ([11]CPP) for coordinating fullerenes has been tested using a series of hosts, including the pristine fullerenes C60, C70, C76 and C78, the clusterfullerene Sc3N@C80, monometallic endofullerenes Y@C82 and Tm@C82, and dimetallic endofullerenes more