Abstract: An original approach using plasma technology has been performed in order to develop novel functional nanocarbons such as fullerenes (C/sub 60/) and carbon nanotubes. Fully ionized plasmas, ...

Another noteworthy overview article by Hirsch provides a broad summary of fullerenes, nanotubes, and graphene, with a focus on their electronic, thermal, and mechanical properties. (32) This paper is ...

However, the use of carbon nanotubes, which act as “nano test ... the researchers used Buckminster fullerenes, which are football-shaped molecules consisting of 60 carbon atoms.

Fullerenes are molecules composed entirely of carbon with spherical (buckyballs), ellipsoid, tubular (nanotubes) or a combination shape (nanobuds). They consist of hexagonal and pentagonal (sometimes ...

Although superconductivity has been detected in certain carbon-based materials including diamond, graphene, carbon nanotubes, and fullerene, the superconducting transition temperatures (T c ...

Single walled carbon nanotubes are an allotrope of sp 2 hybridized carbon, like fullerenes. The structure may be considered a cylindrical tube made up of 6-membered carbon rings, like in graphite. The ...

The present volume contains the proceedings of the fourth school on fullerenes and fullerene derivatives. Soccer-ball molecules, like C₆₀, C₇₀, etc., have been discovered in the late 1980's and are ...

Single-walled carbon nanotubes, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon nanohorns, carbon nano-onions, fullerenes, and carbon nano quantum dots are the most common carbon nanomaterials ...

"Chemically, our nanotubes are very simple, but they are extremely beautiful." Named after their resemblance to architectural works by Richard Buckminster Fuller, fullerenes are the largest ...