How to Use fullerene in a Sentence

fullerene

noun
  • The team intends to apply this method to a variety of fullerene and carbon frameworks.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The findings show that, while individual fullerene cages undergo reversible distortions, the overall bridged scaffold remains intact.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
  • This configuration allows lithium to be stored in a manner that prevents the structural failures associated with fullerene materials in energy storage systems.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The only previous example of a molecular carbon allotrope stable enough to study under normal conditions was the 1990 synthesis of fullerenes by Krätschmer and colleagues.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • By maintaining the scaffold’s structural integrity while enabling electronic-state reconstruction, the Mg4C60 framework addresses the technical barriers that previously prevented the use of fullerenes in commercial energy storage.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025

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