Harry Kroto and Richard Smalley, the experimental chemists who discovered C60 named it "buckminsterfullerene", in recognition of the architect Buckminster Fuller, who was well-known for building ...

Derived from the soccer-ball-shaped ‘buckminsterfullerene’ molecule, fullerene-based nanomaterials are a key ingredient in some of the first commercial, high-performance, organic photovoltaic ...

Moreover, the fullerene family itself has grown as other examples — such as rugby-ball-shaped C 70 — have been discovered. As well as looking at the properties of the pristine fullerenes ...

Here is an overview of the 19 fullerene companies – manufacturers and suppliers of fullerene (in alphabetical order) – that are in our Nanowerk database as of October 2024. For individual fullerene ...