Spherical fullerenes are also called buckyballs, whereas cylindrical ones are known as nanotubes. The walls of these structures consist of a single layer of carbon atoms (graphene).

As a multipurpose element, it finds itself as a crucial nutrient for plants, a vital component in the nuclear industry and could also find its way to the tech world through boron buckyballs ...

Carbon nanotubes (also known as buckytubes) have attracted most of the attention where carbon nanomaterials and health and safety are concerned. But, University of Michigan researchers opted for a ...

Fullerenes, often referred to as buckyballs, are spherical molecules composed entirely of carbon atoms arranged in a pattern of hexagons and pentagons, resembling a molecular soccer ball. These ...

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Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...

The first neutral nitrogen molecule – other than dinitrogen – has been isolated and characterised by researchers in Germany. The molecule, the most energetic ever synthesised, is effectively stable at ...

Endohedral metallofullerenes are promising materials in biomedical and material sciences. In particular, they are of interest as agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), photovoltaic devices, and ...

These include applications involving graphene and graphene allotropes (the different shapes that graphene can take such as nanotubes or buckyballs), ultra-light or ultra dark or even so-called 4D ...

We have observed a nearly 4-fold increase in the electron spin resonance (ESR) signal from an ensemble of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) due to oxygen desorption. By performing ...