A fullerene is a special modification of carbon: a carbon allotrop composed entirely of carbon in the form of a hollow sphere (buckyball), a ellipsoid, a tube (nanotubes), or a plane (graphene).
The best known representatives of this group is the C60 fullerene, also Buckminster fullerene or - due to its structure - called soccer ball molecule.
Online available information resources about fullerenes.
Content, Topics
Current Articles
Researchers watch layers of football molecules grow.
Image: This is an artist's impression of the multilayer growth of buckyballs.
[Credit: Nicola Kleppmann/Technical University Berlin, Germany]
General Information
Applications of Fullerenes
Basic information on fullerenes
The Discovery of Fullerenes
Article - Format: PDF
Lecture Notes, Tutorials
Fullerenes
An introduction
Fullerenes
Applications and generalizations - Format: PDF
Fullerenes
Lecture notes: fullerene science module
Fullerenes and Buckyballs
The state molecule of Texas - Format: PDF
Special Information
Alkali-doped fullerenes
Basic information. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Computation of the Configurational Descriptors of C60 and C70 Derivatives
... with a Chiral Functionalization Pattern
Diffraction and Interference with Fullerenes
Wave-particle duality of C60
Historical Facts and Documents
A brief history of C60
Basic information. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Buckminster Fuller
A short page about Buckminster Fuller (Bucky)
Nobel Prize 1996
... for the discovery of fullerenes. The Nobel Foundation
Nomenclature
Fullerenes
Nomenclature for the C60-Ih and C70-D5h(6) Fullerenes
Numbering of Fullerenes
IUPAC Recommendations
Data and Databases
Fullerene Library
VRML gallery of Fullerenes
Fullerene Structure Library
... and fullerene gallery
Dissertations
Endohedral Fullerenes for Quantum Computing
This work investigates the properties of nitrogen and phosphorous encapsulated in the Buckminster-fullerene C60 for an application as qubits in a quantum computer. Dissertation, 2003. FU Berlin
Fullerenes in Liquids
Multiscale modeling and simulation of fullerenes in liquids.. Dissertation, ETH Zürich, 2009, DOI: 10.3929/ethz-a-005772771
Photoionisation and Photofragmentation
... of Fullerenes. Dissertation, 2006. TU Berlin
Articles and Reports
Fullerenes
Serving up Buckyballs on a silver platter
Layered Footballs
First two-dimensional organic metal made of fullerenes
Synthesis with a Template
Carbon-free fullerene analogue.
Organisations
Cluster Science Collaboration
... CSC is an academic interest group at Michigan State University promoting fundamental research in atomic clusters
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