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Nanomaterials Aug 14, 2023

Gold buckyballs, oft-used nanoparticle 'seeds' found to be one and the same

Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold "seed" particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spherical molecules that are cousins ...

Analytical Chemistry Jun 1, 2023

Flat fullerene fragments attractive to electrons, shows study

Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have gained new insights into the unique chemical properties of spherical molecules composed entirely of carbon atoms, called fullerenes. They did it by making flat fragments of the ...

Analytical Chemistry Mar 27, 2023

How football-shaped molecules occur in the universe

For a long time it has been suspected that fullerene and its derivatives could form naturally in the universe. These are large carbon molecules shaped like a football, salad bowl or nanotube. An international team of researchers ...

Polymers Mar 16, 2023

Modeling superfast processes in organic solar cell material

In organic solar cells, carbon-based polymers convert light into charges that are passed to an acceptor. This type of material has great potential, but to unlock this, a better understanding is needed of the way in which ...

Analytical Chemistry Jan 11, 2023

Discovery of a new form of carbon called long-range ordered porous carbon

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 hybridized carbon with zero (flat-shaped) ...

Nanomaterials Nov 9, 2022

Physicists show how tight 'diet' could produce single-chirality carbon nanotubes

Like a giraffe stretching for leaves on a tall tree, making carbon nanotubes reach for food as they grow may lead to a long-sought breakthrough.

Quantum Physics Nov 8, 2022

Four common misconceptions about quantum physics

Quantum mechanics, the theory which rules the microworld of atoms and particles, certainly has the X factor. Unlike many other areas of physics, it is bizarre and counter-intuitive, which makes it dazzling and intriguing. ...

Materials Science Sep 6, 2022

Video: How pencils can help us understand the future of everything (Alex wants a jetpack)

The chemistry world has been excited about the possibility of buckyballs, graphene and carbon nanotubes for decades.

Astronomy Jul 28, 2022

Infrared spectra of highly positively charged C60 fullerenes and their relevance to unidentified infrared emission

Is there now at long last some plausible theoretical basis for the molecular origins and carriers of at least some of the most prominent unidentified infrared emission (UIE) bands that have mystified astronomers for decades?

Nanomaterials Jul 21, 2022

Buckyballs on gold are less exotic than graphene

Graphene consists of carbon atoms that crosslink in a plane to form a flat honeycomb structure. In addition to surprisingly high mechanical stability, the material has exciting electronic properties. The electrons behave ...

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