Graphitic forms of carbon are important in a wide variety of applications, ranging from
pollution control to composite materials, yet the structure of these carbons at the molecular …

The story of the discovery of C60, Buckminsterfullerene, Fig. 1, and the birth of Fullerene
Science consists of several disparate strands which came together over ten days in …

Energy landscapes hold the key to understanding a wide range of molecular phenomena.
The problem of how a denatured protein re-folds to its active state (Levinthal's parado) has …

A simple, new, carbon nucleation scheme has been developed which results in quasi-single
crystal particles of concentric, spiral-shell internal structure and overall quasi-icosahedral …

We report a new algorithm for constructing pathways between local minima that involve a
large number of intervening transition states on the potential energy surface. A significant …

We perform optical emission studies on the species generated by the laser vaporization of
graphite into a pulsed helium flow. With short flow channels prior to free‐jet expansion the …

General-gradient approximation (PBE) and hybrid Hartree− Fock density functional theories
(B3LYP) in conjunction with basis sets of up to polarized triple-ζ quality have been applied to …

Abstract Using the Car—Parrinello method we have investigated theoretically the properties
of the recently synthesized C 59 B and of the yet hypothetical C 59 N molecules. We show …

Basic research must continue to be supported! This is one of the conclusions clearly evident
from the story behind the discovery of the fullerenes. The questions to which answers were …

The gaseous products evolved from solid hydrogenated amorphous carbon (HAC) under UV
irradiation have been sampled using time of flight (TOF) mass spectrometry. A notable …