Fullerenes with small energy differences between filled and unfilled electronic states of the individual fullerene molecules (“small gap fullerenes”) are especially susceptible to such spontaneous ...

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In a step toward engineering ever-smaller electronic devices, scientists have assembled nanoscale pairings of particles that show promise as miniaturized power sources. Composed of light-absorbing, ...

Astronomers have detected fullerenes in a planetary nebula, shown in this artist’s rendering. The discovery suggests that fullerenes form readily in space, given the right conditions. Fullerenes, ...

Flat hexagons and pentagons come together in new twist on old polyhedra In the latest verse of a centuries-old mathematical refrain, scientists have figured a way to iron out the wrinkles in a large ...

Research scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a process to pair quantum dots with fullerenes in photovoltaic cells in order to improve the effectiveness of solar panels on ...

Researchers showed that fullerenes can polarize MRI target molecules without cryogenic conditions, boosting dynamic nuclear polarization sensitivity and enabling clearer medical imaging. (Nanowerk ...

Organic photovoltaics have achieved remarkably high efficiencies, but finding optimum combinations of materials for high-performance organic solar cells, which are also economically competitive, still ...

All hopes for superconductivity at room temperature have been riding on ceramic materials known as cuprates. These materials lose their electrical resistance at relatively high temperatures, which can ...

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 ...