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Revelations of the fullerenes

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The discovery that the face-centred cubic form of the fullerene Cs3C60 is a superconductor, just as its body-centred cubic counterpart is, sheds light on the origin of superconductivity in organic materials.

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Figure 1: Packing arrangements of C60 molecules in antiferromagnetic materials.

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  1. Yoshihiro Iwasa is at the Quantum-Phase Electronics Center, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, and at CERG, RIKEN, Wako 351-0198, Japan. iwasa@ap.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp,

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Iwasa, Y. Revelations of the fullerenes. Nature 466, 191–192 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466191a

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