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 ...

To test the possibility, the researchers used fullerenes as a stand-in for space dust. They chose the 60-carbon-atom spheroidal molecules because they share so many characteristics of space dust.

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 ...

An international group of scientists has built an organic solar cell based on an acceptor based on selenium (Se) instead of commonly utilized non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). The use of Se is ...

We are looking for a Research Fellow in synthetic organic chemistry to join a collaboration looking at the synthesis, elaboration, and properties of endohedral fullerenes. You will be based at the ...

Here is an overview of the 18 fullerene companies – manufacturers and suppliers of fullerene (in alphabetical order) – that are in our Nanowerk database as of April 2025. For individual fullerene ...