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Chemistry World December 18, 2012 Caryl Richards	Boron vapor trail leads to heterofullerenes A team of scientists has developed a simple way to synthesize heterofullerenes -- fullerenes with atoms other than carbon in their structure -- by exposing fullerene to boron vapor during their growth.
Chemistry World May 30, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization.
Chemistry World February 21, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Fullerenes break the rules Chinese researchers have made an exotic new family of fullerenes that contain three pentagons fused sequentially in their structure.
Technology Research News June 2, 2004	Buckyballs Gain Smaller Kin Researchers from Xiamen University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have constructed a smaller version of the buckyball or C60 fullerene molecule, a spherical cage of carbon atoms.
Chemistry World March 21, 2013 Neil Withers	Harry Kroto: From light years to nanometers -- and back My emphasis in the Pittcon plenary lecture is that the discovery of C 60 started off from an interest in massive clouds of gas in interstellar space. You go from these huge objects into the nanoscale world and back again out into space.
Chemistry World May 9, 2010 Hayley Birch	Filming fullerene formation Real-time, atomic level microscopy has revealed that the round, cage-like structures of fullerenes can form directly from sheets containing large numbers of carbon atoms.
Chemistry World December 7, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Metal atoms in carbon nanotubes caught on film An international team of researchers has filmed individual metal atoms as they move around and react within the confines of a carbon nanotube.
Chemistry World November 2010	Carbyne and other myths about carbon Harry Kroto gets hot under the collar on the subject of so-called carbyne
Chemistry World September 19, 2010 Simon Hadlington	One dimensional carbon chains get longer Researchers in Canada have synthesised the longest polyyne to date - a linear chain of carbon atoms.
Technology Research News August 13, 2003	Carbon wires expand nano toolkit Scientists looking for building blocks to form electronics and machines that are not much bigger than molecules have gained a new tool.
Reactive Reports Issue 34 David Bradley	Sandwiched nanotubes Ferrocene-modified carbon nanotubes can separate charge
Chemistry World November 5, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Playing with 'Russian-doll' fullerenes Chinese chemists have made 'Russian-doll'-style fullerenes, containing three distinct molecules trapped within one another.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003	Nanotubes harvest electrons Researchers from the University of Bologna and the University of Trieste in Italy, and the University of Notre Dame have found a way to alter carbon nanotubes so that they efficiently separate electrical charge. The method could lead to more efficient solar cells.
Chemistry World July 16, 2015 Emma Stoye	Confirmation of buckyballs in the Milky Way The presence of buckyballs in the Milky Way has been confirmed by scientists who matched the absorption spectra of C 60 + ions to two previously unidentified absorption features in spectra of the interstellar medium that were identified over 20 years ago.
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley	Natural Copy Cat While plants convert carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen, chemists are having a more difficult time finding an efficient method for converting carbon dioxide into useful fuels.
Chemistry World May 16, 2006 Jon Evans	Buckyballs Worth Their Weight in Gold A team of chemists and physicists has uncovered evidence for the existence of hollow buckyball-like cages made of gold.
Technology Research News December 29, 2004	Coated Nanotubes Make Biosensors Researchers are using carbon nanotubes to sense single molecules, and are tapping the way carbon nanotubes give off near-infrared light in order to read what the sensors have detected.
Chemistry World March 3, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Hydrocarbon turns superconductor Researchers in Japan have created the first superconducting material based on a molecule of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Rachel Wood	Decoding interstellar carbon The detection of molecules such as fullerenes -- molecules composed entirely of carbon, including the spherical C 60 -- has revealed a more complicated picture of carbon in space.
Chemistry World July 22, 2010 Andy Extance	Buckyballs give clue to space mystery The C60 molecule Buckminsterfullerene has been clearly identified in space for the first time, providing a possible solution to a 90-year old extraterrestrial enigma.
Popular Mechanics April 1, 2008 Chris Ladd	Nano Tanks Could Store Hydrogen in Microscopic 'Soccer Balls' While hydrogen gas and fuel cells remain far-off realities for solving the fuel crunch, new computer models of interlocked carbon chambers have proven to store hydrogen at similar pressures to the cores of huge planets.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley	For Pure Nanotubes Add Water Washing away impurities with water turns out to be as good for growing carbon nanotubes as it is for keeping a clean house.
Chemistry World August 13, 2008 Fred Campbell	Buckyball synthesis under control Researchers in Spain have developed a highly efficient, surface-catalysed route to fullerenes.
Reactive Reports David Bradley	Subjective Suboxide Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are probably the best known molecules containing just carbon and oxygen, but they do form others, such as carbon suboxide (C3O2), which is one of the most stable.
Chemistry World February 26, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Nanotubes Sprout Fullerene Buds A new carbon-based hybrid material is set to make an impact on the microelectronics industry. Christened 'nanobuds', the material consists of single-walled carbon nanotubes with football-shaped fullerenes stuck on their outer surfaces.
Wired Erin Biba	Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life The world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. Most organic molecules derive from a few relatively simple architectures.
Chemistry World October 15, 2015 Victoria Richards	C 50 breaks all the rules European scientists have found that the rules of aromaticity need to be rewritten if they are to ever discover a superaromatic fullerene.
Technology Research News August 25, 2004	Nanotubes Make Fluid Filter Researchers have devised a simple and inexpensive way to manufacture very fine filters from carbon nanotubes. These filters could be used to separate heavy hydrocarbons from petroleum and bacteria and viruses from water.
Chemistry World February 24, 2012 Philip Robinson	In the sky with (nano)diamonds Australian researchers have developed a model to resolve the origin of meteoric nanodiamonds, a long-standing cosmological puzzle.
Chemistry World December 15, 2010 Hayley Birch	New technique probes electron properties of individual atoms A new, low voltage electron microscopy technique allows scientists to discriminate not just between atoms of different elements but between atoms of the same element in different electronic states.
Chemistry World July 7, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Football-sized fullerene gets an electric response A football-sized resonator that can simulate the properties of a carbon fullerene has been created by scientists in Germany.
Chemistry World July 14, 2014 Tim Wogan	First experimental evidence of a boron fullerene The first experimental evidence for a boron fullerene has been produced by researchers in the US and China.
Chemistry World July 8, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Flattening carbon UK researchers have managed to synthesise a molecule with an almost planar four-coordinate carbon atom bonded to two lithium atoms and bulky organic ligands.
The Motley Fool December 28, 2004 Wherrett & Yelovich	Nano Firms Tie the Knot The merger of Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. (CNI) and C Sixty, along with an expanding customer base, makes CNI an even more attractive IPO. Will 2005 be the year carbon nanotubes are introduced to the public?
Science News September 16, 2000 Ivars Peterson	Plato's Molecule The Pythagoreans believed that the dodecahedron formed the "timbers" on which the spherical bulk of the heavens was built. This Platonic solid has been an object of fascination for millennia. Now, the dodecahedron is in the news again...
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Nanotube mix makes liquid crystal Carbon nanotubes are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be as narrow as 0.4 nanometers, or the span of four hydrogen atoms. They have useful electrical and mechanical properties and are a leading player in nanotechnology.
Chemistry World December 21, 2010 Laura Howes	Cutting edge chemistry in 2010 With the help of an expert panel of journal editors, Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in the year's chemical science papers.
Chemistry World May 7, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Super-sized molecular sponges boost carbon capture Super-sized molecular sponges that trap and store carbon dioxide have been unveiled by chemists in the US.
Chemistry World May 13, 2013 Philip Ball	The name's (quadruple) bond? The nature of C 2 is still imperfectly understood and has recently sparked extensive debate in the chemical literature. The question seems simple: how are the two atoms bonded?
Chemistry World November 7, 2012 Simon Hadlington	World's first all-carbon solar cell Researchers in the US and China have built a photovoltaic cell made entirely from carbon. The electrodes and light-active layers are made from a combination of three carbon allotropes -- nanotubes, fullerenes and graphene.
Technology Research News June 4, 2003	Study shows DNA will fill tubes Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany have shown by computer simulation that it is possible to insert DNA into a carbon nanotube.
Chemistry World October 3, 2013 Jon Cartwright	Graphene targets water treatment and carbon capture Researchers in South Korea have demonstrated that a membrane based on graphene and graphene oxide makes an effective filter to separate carbon dioxide from nitrogen gas.
Chemistry World January 15, 2010 Kate McAlpine	Capturing carbon with copper A team of researchers in the Netherlands have devised a trap that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air.
Chemistry World August 14, 2012 Andy Extance	Carbon clusters score lucky seven US and Chinese chemists say that they've calculated the structure of a stable carbon dication that would have a higher coordination number than any yet seen experimentally.
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Soaking up Carbon Researchers recently announced that they had created metal-based sponges that have exceptionally high capacity for storing carbon dioxide. This nanotechnology is one of many new solutions in the search to find a fix for storing human-emitted carbon-based greenhouse gases.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004	Short Nanotubes Carry Big Currents Researchers have developed a simple way to fabricate carbon nanotube devices whose length is as small as ten nanometers, and have shown that electricity can pass through the nanotubes very efficiently.
Chemistry World February 11, 2015 Jon Evans	Calculations predict pentagonal graphene Scientists in China have proposed the existence of a novel 2D allotrope of carbon made up of pentagons, which they have dubbed 'penta-graphene'.
Popular Mechanics March 28, 2008 Joanna Borns	Spongelike Air-Capture Gadget Scrubs Away Carbon Emissions Researchers have invented a phone-booth-size device that can take back the carbon dioxide emissions that have already reached the atmosphere.
Chemistry World February 13, 2015 Andy Extance	X-ray laser snaps first bond-forming transition state Using data from x-ray lasers scientists have reconstructed the formation of the carbon monoxide oxidation transition state.
Chemistry World February 26, 2013 Holly Sheahan	Capturing the potential of carbon dioxide A team of researchers from the University of Bath have opened up the idea of using carbon dioxide as a useful potential feedstock; a useful chemical resource rather than a troublesome waste product.