The search for novel compounds with nanosize transition metal oxide frameworks is important for the study and understanding of materials with interesting and important magnetic and electronic properties. These low-dimensional ...

A process for purification of the previously insoluble empty fullerenes and endohedral metallofullerenes was developed, based on sublimation from the soot and subsequent solubilization by electrochemical reduction. The ...

To address the relative lack of understanding concerning growth mechanisms for diamond chemical vapor deposition (CVD), this work explores kinetics of diamond epitaxy--growth on single-crystal substrates--and morphology ...

The first measurements of the heats of sublimation of C$\sb{60}$ and C$\sb{70}$ were carried out from a polycrystalline mixture of C$\sb{60}$ and C$\sb{70}$ using Knudsen effusion mass spectrometry. Average heats of ...

While fullerenes form in yields exceeding 30% by mass when a laser generated pure carbon vapor is allowed to condense under annealing conditions, more than 70% of all vaporized carbon assembles in the form of single-wall ...

The new third form of carbon, known collectively as fullerenes, is studied in several general aspects. Efficient production methods have been developed along with an increased understanding into the formation mechanisms. ...

Novel materials have been self-assembled in the plasma generated by laser vaporization of targets under various conditions. This technique along with the Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FT-ICR) supersonic cluster ...

Studies on gas phase clusters show that common ground exists between clusters and bulk surfaces such that clusters can serve as models of bulk surfaces. Several cluster systems are studied to probe this cluster-surface ...