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February 19, 2015

Half spheres for molecular circuits
Trieste, Italy (SPX) Feb 18, 2015
Imagine taking a fullerene (C60) and cutting it in half like a melon. What you get is a corannulene (C20H10), a molecule that, according to a just-published study conducted with SISSA's collaboration, could be an important component of future "molecular circuits", that is, circuits miniaturized to the size of molecules, to be used for various kinds of electronic devices (transistors, diodes, etc.). Fullerene is a very popular molecule: also called buckybowl, it is formed of carbon atoms arranged i ... read more

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