Nanomaterials have emerged as an amazing class of materials that consists of a broad
spectrum of examples with at least one dimension in the range of 1 to 100 nm. Exceptionally …

The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

A cycloparaphenylene can be thought of as the shortest possible cross section of an
armchair carbon nanotube. Although envisioned decades ago, these molecules—also …

One of the attractive properties of the hollow carbon clusters, known as fullerenes, is the
possibility to use them as robust containers for other species. Although an IUPAC …

Fullerenes have the characteristic of a hollow interior, and this unique feature triggers
intuitive inspiration to entrap atoms, ions or clusters inside the carbon cage in the form of …

Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs), a new class of hybrid molecules formed by
encapsulation of metallic species inside fullerene cages, exhibit unique properties that differ …

It is an established paradigm in the emerging fields of nanoscience, nanotechnology and
molecular engineering that a very important domain of fundamental research is associated …

Glycan–protein interactions are of utmost importance in several biological phenomena.
Although the variety of carbohydrate residues in mammalian cells is limited to less than a …

The elucidation of geometries is the fundamental to further investigate and develop fullerene
chemistry, an epoch-making discipline since 1985. Although the geometries of fullerenes …

Owing to the three different orbital hybridizations carbon can adopt, the existence of various
carbon nanoallotropes differing also in dimensionality has been already affirmed with other …