The study of C60 molecules on metal surfaces has evolved into a multidisciplinary field that bridges fundamental physics and materials engineering. C60, or buckminsterfullerene, demonstrates unique ...
Scientists have observed novel ergodicity-breaking in C60, a highly symmetric molecule composed of 60 carbon atoms arranged on the vertices of a 'soccer ball' pattern (with 20 hexagon faces and 12 ...
Dennis Lichtenberger (University of Arizona, Tucson): "Prior to this work, the intriguing truncated icosahedral 'soccer ball' structure of the C60 molecule had been surmised from detection of ...