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 …

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 …

Information entropy indices are widely used for numerical descriptions of chemical
structures, though their applications to the processes are scarce. We have applied our …

Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) are a novel class of metal–carbon hybrid molecules
consisting of a fullerene shell and a metal core. Because of the presence of the internal …

A series of minimally sized regular dodecahedron-embedded metallofullerene REC20
clusters (RE= Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, and Gd) as basic units of nanoassembled …

Semiconductors assembled upon nanotemplates consisting of metal-encapsulating Si cage
clusters (M@ Si n) have been proposed as prospective materials for nanodevices. To make …

This work reports a series of endohedral metallofullerene superatoms [Mg@ C20] n, where
n= 4, 2, 0,− 2, and− 4. It was found that Mg transfers virtually all of its 3s electrons to the C20 …

The chemical bonding in actinide compounds is usually analyzed by inspecting the shape
and the occupation of the orbitals or by calculating bond orders which are based on orbital …

Abstract The position of Lawrencium (Lr) in the periodic table has been debated several
times. It has been noticed that some fundamental properties of Lr differ from the other …

The actinide endohedral fullerene Th@ C76 was successfully prepared in a very recent
experiment (Wang et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 5110) yet without any structural …