A study from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which combines laboratory chemistry with astrophysics, has shown for the first time that grains of dust formed by carbon and hydrogen in a ...

Scientists at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Russia) have explained the stability of nitrogen-doped fullerenes, which makes their industrial production and application easier. The ...

A study conducted by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" in Italy has synthesized fullerenes and hollow spherical graphene ...

Fullerenes are hollow molecules made entirely of carbon atoms arranged in closed, cage-like structures. The best-known fullerene is C60, also called a buckyball or buckminsterfullerene, whose 60 ...

Research scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a process to pair quantum dots with fullerenes in photovoltaic cells in order to improve the effectiveness of solar panels on ...

Astronomers have detected fullerenes in a planetary nebula, shown in this artist’s rendering. The discovery suggests that fullerenes form readily in space, given the right conditions. Fullerenes, ...

A unique carbon nanomaterial, first discovered by astrochemists studying the formation of molecules around distant stars, could be critical to successfully harnessing energy from our Sun. Derived from ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is invaluable in the medical world. But despite all the good it does, there is room for improvement. One way to enhance the sensitivity of MRI is dynamic nuclear ...

Researchers showed that fullerenes can polarize MRI target molecules without cryogenic conditions, boosting dynamic nuclear polarization sensitivity and enabling clearer medical imaging. (Nanowerk ...

All hopes for superconductivity at room temperature have been riding on ceramic materials known as cuprates. These materials lose their electrical resistance at relatively high temperatures, which can ...