The famous carbon allotrope can catalyse the formation of hydrogen molecules in cold interstellar environments ...

In 2013, it launched a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation and Showa Denko. “These days, our fullerenes are attracting a lot of attention, especially for organic electronic devices such as ...

Harry Kroto and Richard Smalley, the experimental chemists who discovered C60 named it "buckminsterfullerene", in recognition of the architect Buckminster Fuller, who was well-known for building ...

Fullerenes are spherical or ellipsoidal nanocarbon structures composed of carbon atoms arranged in a closed cage-like structure. The most well-known fullerene is C60, also known as ...

As well as looking at the properties of the pristine fullerenes, chemists just can't help themselves and have sought to tinker with their structures in many different ways. The hollow interiors of ...

We are exploring the systematic theoretical chemistry of the fullerenes based on classical chemical ideas e.g. the 60+6k `leapfrog principle´ equivalent of Hückel´s 4n+2 rule. A series of papers and a ...