Assembling clusters on surfaces has emerged as a novel way to grow thin films with targeted properties. In particular, it has been proposed from experimental findings that fullerenes deposited on surfaces could give rise to thin films retaining the bonding properties of the incident clusters. However the microscopic structure of such films is still unclear. By performing quantum molecular dynam...

The C60 fullerenes are fascinating objects and even many years after their discovery the photo-physics of C60 is still full of surprises. With their well defined, highly symmetric structure the fullerenes are challenging model systems and examples of an interface between atoms or small molecules and the solid state. The 60 delocalized π electrons in the C60 fullerene give rise to interesting bu...

The new revolution in dental materials is due to use of nanomaterials in dentistry. Graphene is one of the carbon nanoallotrope that has the potential to enhance properties of materials used in dentistry. The use of this 2D crystal is dentistry is virtue to its typical properties that provides improved performance, extended functionality in materials. In this paper, a review is done to study 3D...

We use the doped Fullerenes as an example of how realistic systems can be described by simple models. Starting from the band structure we set up a tight-binding model that describes the t1u conduction band. Adding correlation terms we arrive at a generalized Hubbard Hamiltonian that we treat using quantum Monte Carlo. To address the problem of superconductivity in the doped Fullerenes, we study...

This article reviews the recent progress of fullerene-tethered oligothiophenes as advanced molecular electronics materials. By covalent linkage with fullerenes, oligothiophenes can be modified into intelligent functional materials. In addition to the characteristics of oligothiophenes as well as fullerenes, these linkage systems show intriguing physical properties such as photoinduced electron ...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) belong to the family of synthetic carbon allotropes and are characterized by a network of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms. The one dimensional (1D) carbon nanotubes can thus be queued between their zero dimensional relatives fullerenes and the two dimensional (2D) relative graphene. The structure of nanotubes has first been described as helical microtubules of graphitic carb...

The topological index of a graph G is a numeric quantity related to G which is invariant under automorphisms of G. The vertex PI polynomial is defined as v u v e uv PI (G) n (e) n (e). = = + ∑ Then Omega polynomial Ω(G,x) for counting qoc strips in G is defined as Ω(G,x) = ∑cm(G,c)x with m(G,c) being the number of strips of length c. In this paper, a new infinite class of fullerenes is construc...

An ordered mesoporous carbon, CMK-3, was synthesized using a mesoporous siliceous material, SBA-15, as the template. CMK-3 was characterized and used for the adsorption of fullerenes C60 and C70. It was found that the adsorption capacity of CMK-3 is 4 times higher than that of activated carbon. The adsorption equilibrium isotherms of C60 and C70 on CMK-3 were studied for both single and binary ...

Developing useful molecular systems, such as planar networks for novel molecular electronics, requires the ability to control the way molecules assemble at surfaces. Here we report how an oxide crystal surface can be used as a template to controllably order endohedral fullerenes, Er3N@C80, into two-dimensional (2D) open-grid arrays. The crystal surface is made of highly ordered oxide nanostruct...

Fullerenes are interesting model systems for probing the complex, fundamental electron dynamics and ionisation mechanisms of large molecules and nanoparticles. In this Tutorial Review we explain how recent experimental and theoretical advances are providing insight into the interesting phenomenon of thermal electron emission from molecular systems and the properties of hydrogenic, diffuse, exci...