This news release is available in German. FRANKFURT. The discovery of the soccer ball-shaped C60 molecule in 1985 was a milestone for the development of nanotechnology. In parallel with the ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. After exploring for 25-years, scientists have solved the question of how the iconic ...

Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster ...

Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system and has a characteristic ring. Researchers have now synthesized a molecular 'nano-Saturn'. It consists of a spherical C(60) fullerene as the ...

The most well-known forms of carbon include graphite and diamond, but there are other more exotic nanoscale allotropes of carbon as well. These include graphene and fullerenes, which are sp2 ...

Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology and the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS in collaboration with researchers from four other Russian and foreign ...

Goethe University chemists have managed to synthesise a compound featuring an Si20 dodecahedron. The Platonic solid, which was published in the "Angewandte Chemie" journal, is not just aesthetically ...