Carbon nanocages grow by eating small molecules

Scientists from the CNRS Institute of Materials in France with the Florida State University (FSU) and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) located in Tallahassee, Florida in the United States, along with colleagues from Nagoya University in Japan, have solved the 25-year old mystery of how the iconic family of caged-carbon molecules, fullerenes, form. The results shed fundamental light into the self-assembly of carbon networks and should have important implications for carbon nanotechnology, and also provide insight into the origin of space fullerenes that are found throughout the Universe.

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