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 ...

An interesting fact is the material's name itself. "Fullerene" refers to its specific structure, resembling a "cage" of carbon atoms with a nitrogen atom enclosed inside. This name is inspired by ...

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 March 2025. For individual fullerene ...

To solve this issue, the researchers optimized the acceptor by introducing another non-fullerene acceptor known ... considering optimizing the molecular structure to simultaneously improve the ...