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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for development of molecular semiconductors and quantum computing ...

Stable carbon-80 fullerene (C79B) would be an electron short, instead of having an extra electron. There would be the components of a molecular semiconductor. C79N (carbon 80 with one carbon changed ...

(Nanowerk News) Goethe University chemists have managed to synthesise a compound featuring an Si20 dodecahedron. The Platonic solid, which was published in the Angewandte Chemie journal ("One-Step ...

Chemists have managed to synthesize a compound featuring an Si20 dodecahedron. The long strived-for silicon dodecahedron has been synthesized at room temperature. Goethe University chemists have ...

Using an artificial Ebola virus model, a medical researchers have demonstrated how a supermolecule -- constituted by 13 fullerenes -- has been able of inhibiting the virus infection by blocking a ...

Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology (CEST) and the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a novel approach for ...

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 ...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) tend to be manufactured in single-wall (SW) and multiwall (MW) versions, both of which contain thousands of carbon atoms (Fig. 1). SW CNTs feature one shell of hexagonal ...

Different studies have demonstrated that the ebola virus infection process starts when the virus reaches the cellular DC-SIGN receptor to infect the dendritic cells (of the immune system). European ...