When metal clusters meet carbon cages: endohedral clusterfullerenes

S Yang, T Wei, F ** - Chemical society reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Fullerenes have the characteristic of a hollow interior, and this unique feature triggers
intuitive inspiration to entrap atoms, ions or clusters inside the carbon cage in the form of …

Functionalized fullerenes and their applications in electrochemistry, solar cells, and nanoelectronics

M Paukov, C Kramberger, I Begichev, M Kharlamova… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Carbon-based nanomaterials have rapidly advanced over the last few decades. Fullerenes,
carbon nanotubes, graphene and its derivatives, graphene oxide, nanodiamonds, and …

Room-temperature logic-in-memory operations in single-metallofullerene devices

J Li, S Hou, YR Yao, C Zhang, Q Wu, HC Wang… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
In-memory computing provides an opportunity to meet the growing demands of large data-
driven applications such as machine learning, by colocating logic operations and data …

Two Metastable Endohedral Metallofullerenes Sc2C2@C1(39656)-C82 and Sc2C2@C1(51383)-C84: Direct-C2-Insertion Products from Their Most …

YR Yao, ZC Chen, L Chen, SY Zheng… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) are sub-nano carbon materials with diverse
applications, yet their formation mechanism, particularly for metastable isomers, remains …

Fullerenes as nanocontainers that stabilize unique actinide species inside: structures, formation, and reactivity

W Cai, CH Chen, N Chen… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Fullerene carbon cages can encapsulate a wide variety of atoms, ions, clusters,
or small molecules inside, resulting in stable compounds with unusual structures and …

Self-driven carbon atom implantation into fullerene embedding metal–carbon cluster

R Guan, ZC Chen, J Huang, HR Tian… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Hundreds of members have been synthesized and versatile applications have been
promised for endofullerenes (EFs) in the past 30 y. However, the formation mechanism of …

Synthesis and characterization of non-isolated-pentagon-rule actinide endohedral metallofullerenes U@ C 1 (17418)-C76, U@ C 1 (28324)-C80, and Th@ C 1 …

W Cai, L Abella, J Zhuang, X Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
For the first time, actinide endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) with non-isolated-pentagon-
rule (non-IPR) carbon cages, U@ C80, Th@ C80, and U@ C76, have been successfully …

Endohedral Metallofullerenes: An Ideal Platform of Sub‐Nano Chemistry

W Shen, L Bao, X Lu - Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive Summary The hollow cavity of fullerenes is an ideal host for the stabilization
of a variety of otherwise unstable metallic clusters, enabling the discovery of novel …

Endohedral metallofullerenes: New structures and unseen phenomena

W Shen, S Hu, X Lu - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs), namely fullerenes with metallic species encapsulated
inside, represent an ideal platform to investigate metal–metal or metal–carbon interactions …

Lu2@C2n (2n = 82, 84, 86): Crystallographic Evidence of Direct Lu–Lu Bonding between Two Divalent Lutetium Ions Inside Fullerene Cages

W Shen, L Bao, Y Wu, C Pan, S Zhao… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Although most of the M2C2 n-type metallofullerenes (EMFs) tend to form carbide cluster
EMFs, we report herein that Lu-containing EMFs Lu2C2 n (2 n= 82, 84, 86) are actually …