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SUBMITTER: Mulet-Gas M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5663703 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20171031 1
An ultimate goal in carbon nanoscience is to decipher formation mechanisms of highly ordered systems. Here, we disclose chemical processes that result in formation of high-symmetry clusterfullerenes, which attract interest for use in applications that span biomedicine to molecular electronics. The conversion of doped graphite into a C<sub>80</sub> cage is shown to occur through bottom-up self-assembly reactions. Unlike conventional forms of fullerene, the iconic Buckminsterfullerene cage, I <sub ...[more]