In material sciences, many complicated inorganic and organometallic systems have been analyzed using single-crystal methods, such as fullerenes, metalloporphyrins, and other complicated compounds.
The materials can also be formed by chemical reactions on fullerene or laser ablation of graphitic materials.
A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, tube, and many other shapes.
In an in silico experiment a bond distance of 136 pm is estimated for neopentane locked up in fullerene.
In addition, it is used as a solvent for carbon nanomaterials, including nanotubes and fullerenes, and it can also be used as a fullerene indicator.
In other words, although the carbon atoms in fullerene are all conjugated the superstructure is not a super aromatic compound.
In 2010, fullerenes (or buckyballs) were detected in nebulae.
Individual gadolinium atoms have been isolated by encapsulating them into fullerene molecules and visualized with transmission electron microscope.
