The discovery of soccer-ball-shaped buckminsterfullerene in 1985 inspired researchers to lock atoms of a single element together into novel shapes, such as nanotubes, for applications in drug delivery ...

A fullerene is a carbon compound whose molecule is made up of carbon atoms linked together by single and double bonds to create a closed or partly closed mesh with rings of 5 to 7 atoms. Graphene ...

Fullerenes have fascinated chemists for decades—with the discoverers of the all-carbon version C 60 even nabbing the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Chemists have also tried to make these cagey ...

A study conducted by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” in Italy has synthesized fullerenes and hollow spherical graphene ...

Ask 10 people what the next big breakthrough in science and medicine will be and one of the answers is bound to be nanotechnology. The lure of tiny machines that are able to deliver drugs with ...

A study conducted by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" in Italy has synthesized fullerenes and hollow spherical graphene ...