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 …

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

Carbon based nanomaterials have attracted significant attention over the past decades due
to their unique physical properties, versatile functionalization chemistry, and biological …

Ever since the first experimental evidence of the existence of endohedral metallofullerenes
(EMFs) was obtained, the search for carbon cages with encapsulated metals and small …

Cancer is a most common cause of mortality globally. Available medicines possess severe
side effects owing to their non-specific targeting. Hence, there is a need of an alternative in …

Functionalized fullerenes with specific physicochemical properties have been developed for
cancer diagnosis and therapy. Notably, metallofullerene is a new class of magnetic …

The development of novel nanoparticles as a new generation therapeutic drug platform is an
active field of chemistry and cancer research. In recent years, fullerene nanoparticles have …

Endohedral metallofullerenes exhibit combined properties from carbon cages as well as
internal metal moieties and have great potential in a wide range of applications as molecule …

The field of nanoscience was pioneered in the 1980s with the groundbreaking research on
clusters, which later led to the discovery of fullerenes. Handbook of Nanophysics: Clusters …

A new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent based on the trimetallic nitride
templated (TNT) metallofullerene Gd3N@ C80 was synthesized by a facile method in high …