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 ...

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 ...

Figure 1: Sketch of the experimental scheme. An ensemble of C60 "soccer ball" molecules is excited and ionized by an NIR pulse and imaged by an X-ray pulse from the Free-Electron Laser (FEL) LCLS at ...

A new study in Science shows that the incorporation of a synthetic molecule into the design enhances the energy efficiency and longevity of perovskite solar cells. The benefits of the molecule, known ...