Boron, a chemical element next to carbon in the periodic table, is known for its unique ability to form complex bond networks ...

The discovery of soccer-ball-shaped buckminsterfullerene in 1985 inspired researchers to lock atoms of a single element together into novel shapes, such as nanotubes, for applications in drug delivery ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. After exploring for 25-years, scientists have solved the question of how the iconic ...

Buckyballs are defined as “Compounds composed solely of an even number of carbon atoms, which form a cage-like fused-ring polycyclic system with twelve five-membered rings and the rest six-membered ...

A fullerene is a carbon compound whose molecule is made up of carbon atoms linked together by single and double bonds to create a closed or partly closed mesh with rings of 5 to 7 atoms. Graphene ...

In a world-first, researchers have created a fullerene-like molecule composed entirely of metal atoms. Synthesized by a team of chemists from China’s Nankai University, Nanjing Tech University and ...