Since their discovery, quasicrystals have attracted continuous research interest due to their unique structural and physical properties. Recently, it was demonstrated that dodecagonal quasicrystals ...

A small team of chemists from Nankai University, Nanjing Tech University and Shanxi University, all in China, working with a colleague from Universidad San Sebastián, in Chile, has, for the first time ...

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 ...

Recent toxicology studies suggest that nanosized aggregates of fullerene molecules can enter cells and alter their functions, and also cross the blood–brain barrier. However, the mechanisms by which ...

However, because the fullerene nanowhisker superconductor obtained in this research is lightweight, has a fine fiber-like shape from the initial stage, and maintains that fine, fibrous shape even ...

In two previous Spotlights (here and here) we wrote about the fact that the environmental footprint created by today's nanomanufacturing technologies are conflicting with the general perception that ...

(Nanowerk News) The discovery of buckyballs surprised and delighted chemists in the 1980s, nanotubes jazzed physicists in the 1990s, and graphene charged up materials scientists in the 2000s, but one ...

In a world-first, researchers have created a fullerene-like molecule composed entirely of metal atoms. Synthesized by a team of chemists from China’s Nankai University, Nanjing Tech University and ...

Fullerenes have fascinated chemists for decades—with the discoverers of the all-carbon version C 60 even nabbing the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Chemists have also tried to make these cagey ...

Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology and the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS in collaboration with researchers from four other Russian and foreign ...