Current status and future developments of endohedral metallofullerenes

X Lu, L Feng, T Akasaka, S Nagase - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs), a new class of hybrid molecules formed by
encapsulation of metallic species inside fullerene cages, exhibit unique properties that differ …

Fullertubes: A 30-Year Story of Prediction, Experimental Validation, and Applications for a Long-Missing Family of Soluble Carbon Molecules

S Stevenson, HC Dorn - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus During the last 30 years, theoretical scientists imagined segmental families of
monolayer carbon tubules with fullerene-based end-caps. These fullertube molecules would …

The era of carbon allotropes

A Hirsch - Nature materials, 2010 - nature.com
The era of carbon allotropes | Nature Materials Skip to main content Thank you for visiting
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Materials chemistry of fullerene C 60 derivatives

AM Lopez, A Mateo-Alonso, M Prato - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the increasing interest of the scientific community in carbon nanotubes and
graphene, fullerene C60 still plays an important role in the family of nanocarbons. A quarter …

Fullertubes: cylindrical carbon with half-fullerene end-caps and tubular graphene belts, their chemical enrichment, crystallography of pristine C90-D 5h (1) and C100 …

RM Koenig, HR Tian, TL Seeler… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report a chemical separation method to isolate fullertubes: a new and soluble allotrope
of carbon whose structure merges nanotube, graphene, and fullerene subunits. Fullertubes …

Colossal C130 Fullertubes: Soluble [5,5] C130-D5h(1) Pristine Molecules with 70 Nanotube Carbons and Two 30-Atom Hemifullerene End-caps

E Bourret, X Liu, CA Noble, K Cover… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the seminal experimental isolation and DFT characterization of pristine [5, 5] C130-
D5h (1) fullertubes. This achievement represents the largest soluble carbon molecule …

The shape of the Sc2 (μ2-S) unit trapped in C82: crystallographic, computational, and electrochemical studies of the isomers, Sc2 (μ2-S)@ C s (6)-C82 and Sc2 (μ2-S) …

BQ Mercado, N Chen, A Rodríguez-Fortea… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies of Sc2 (μ2-S)@ C s (6)-C82· NiII (OEP)· 2C6H6 and
Sc2 (μ2-S)@ C 3 v (8)-C82· NiII (OEP)· 2C6H6 reveal that both contain fully ordered …

Pushing fullerene absorption into the near-IR region by conjugately fusing oligothiophenes.

Z Xiao, G Ye, Y Liu, S Chen, Q Peng… - … (International ed. in …, 2012 - europepmc.org
Fusing two in one: The π-electron systems of fullerene and an oligothiophene were
conjugately fused by an open-cage process. This led to novel fullerene-oligothiophene …

Gigantic C120 Fullertubes: Prediction and Experimental Evidence for Isomerically Purified Metallic [5,5] C120-D5d(1) and Nonmetallic [10,0] C120-D5h(10766)

X Liu, E Bourret, CA Noble, K Cover… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report the first experimental characterization of isomerically pure and pristine C120
fullertubes,[5, 5] C120-D5d (1) and [10, 0] C120-D5h (10766). These new molecules …

Isolation and Crystallographic Characterization of La2C2@Cs(574)-C102 and La2C2@C2(816)-C104: Evidence for the Top-Down Formation Mechanism of …

W Cai, FF Li, L Bao, Y Xie, X Lu - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Tubular higher fullerenes are prototypes of finite-length end-capped carbon nanotubes
(CNTs) whose structures can be accurately characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction …