The aesthetically pleasing molecular architectures of fullerenes and nanotubes are
appealing not only because of their beauty but also because they are responsible for the …

Endohedral fullerenes represent a novel family of carbon nanostructures, which are
characterized by a robust fullerene cage with atoms, ions, or clusters trapped in its interior …

Fullerenes-a guide to the current state of knowledge in the field The last decade has seen
an explosion of research into the chemical and physical properties of a promising new class …

The discovery of fullerenes (also known as buckyballs) has generated tremendous
excitement and opened up a new field of carbon chemistry. As the first book available on this …

Collating our current knowledge and the latest developments for enabling breakthrough
discoveries, this book focuses on the synthesis and applications of materials that are based …

The fullerenes, hailed as one of the discoveries of the century, have created whole new
fields of organic/organometallic chemistry and of physics. Together with the related …

As the fullerene studies progress, two trends become more visible: the incorporation of the
smaller cages of C60 type into organic chemistry and the increasing interest in the …

Although synthetic fullerenes have only been around for a few years, there are thousands of
scientific articles dealing with them. This is the first monograph in the field and thus …

The range of potential applications of fullerenes and fullerene derivatives in materials
science is becoming broader in virtue of the increased number of derivatives that are …

In this handbook, the leading experts in the field presents important and fundamental
aspects of the organic and organometallic chemistry of fullerenes. Naturally they also cover …