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 ...

To solve the energy demands for a sustainable society, it is crucial to use clean solar energy. Thus, finding methods for efficient light energy conversion is an important scientific goal. For this ...

Fullerenes, a unique class of carbon allotropes arranged as hollow spheres or ellipsoids, have attracted significant attention in biomedicine due to their versatile chemical and physical properties.

Molecular dynamics simulations have emerged as a pivotal tool for elucidating the intricate behaviour of fullerenes in various solvents, particularly water. Fullerenes, a unique class of carbon ...