This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. After exploring for 25-years, scientists have solved the question of how the iconic ...

Researchers investigate the competition between the electron-vibron interaction (interaction with the Jahn- Teller phonons) and the Coulomb repulsion in a system with local pairing of electrons on the ...

Lai-Sheng Wang (middle) and graduate students Wei-Li Li (left) and Zachary Piazza (right) holding a model of "Borospherene" - Credit: Wang Lab/Brown University Nanotechnology experienced a huge surge ...

Using organic synthesis as a scalpel and stitches, Japanese researchers have performed "molecular surgery" on a buckyball. A group at Kyoto University creates an opening in the molecule, inserts H 2 ...

Scientists have created a new structure by encapsulating a single layer of fullerene molecules between two graphene sheets. Buckyball sandwiches combine fullerenes and graphene. This structure allows ...

Researchers have gained new insights into the unique chemical properties of spherical molecules composed entirely of carbon atoms, called fullerenes. They did it by making flat fragments of the ...

In 1985 chemists discovered a soccer-ball-shaped molecule made of 60 carbon atoms and called it buckminsterfullerene-buckyball for short. Researchers have imagined using the molecule for everything ...

A new spherical form of carbon, smaller than the famous carbon buckyball discovered nearly 20 years ago, has been made by Chinese scientists. Su-Yuan Xie of Xiamen University and colleagues report in ...

This Houston Chronicle story ran on Oct. 11, 2010. The headline and words are reprinted below. As is so often the case with great scientific discoveries, Rick Smalley, Bob Curl and Harry Kroto weren't ...

The discovery of soccer-ball-shaped buckminsterfullerene in 1985 inspired researchers to lock atoms of a single element together into novel shapes, such as nanotubes, for applications in drug delivery ...