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C60's smallest cousin

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Figure 1: Little and large relations — C60 surrounded by seven of its smaller C36-fullerene cousins, which Piskoti et al.4 have prepared in bulk form.

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Heath, J. C60's smallest cousin. Nature 393, 730–731 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/31579

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