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The serendipitous discovery of C60 fullerene, which resulted in the prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996, spurred the finding of other fullerenes possessing carbon atoms ranging from 16 to hundreds. In this article, we offer a bird’s eye view of the synthesis, properties and recent applications of this class of carbon allotropes with special emphasis on C60 molecules. The versatility of the molecule and its applications interlinking the various interdisciplinary areas of science are described.
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(left) Pradeep P Shanbogh is a PhD student in PPISR, Bangalore. His research work is on synthesis, solid state chemistry and structural aspects of photocatalytic and photoluminescent nanomaterials, and on organic and inorganic reactions involving various novel materials.
(right) Nalini G Sundaram is a faculty at PPISR, Bangalore. She teaches crystallography and materials science. Her research interests are in the synthesis of novel functional nanomaterials, structural elucidation of novel photocatalytic and photoluminescent materials using diffraction techniques, gas sensors and other energy nanomaterials.
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Shanbogh, P.P., Sundaram, N.G. Fullerenes revisited. Reson 20, 123–135 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-015-0160-0
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