Russian Scientists Synthesize a New Ultra-Hard Material
Russian scientists have synthesized a new ultra-hard material containing scandium and carbon. It consists of polymerized fullerene molecules with scandium and carbon atoms inside. The…
Fullerenes
New Ultrahard Diamond Glass Synthesized Using Carbon Buckyballs
It is the hardest known glass with the highest thermal conductivity among all glass materials. Carnegie’s Yingwei Fei and Lin Wang were part of an…
Interstellar Fullerenes May Reveal Solutions for Earthly Matters
Fullerenes were first discovered by Harry Kroto in the 1970s, a feat for which he and his colleagues Robert Curl and Richard Smalley received a…
