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The era of carbon allotropes

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Twenty-five years on from the discovery of C60, the outstanding properties and potential applications of the synthetic carbon allotropes — fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene — overwhelmingly illustrate their unique scientific and technological importance.

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Figure 1: The world of synthetic carbon allotropes.
Figure 2: Possible derivatizations of C60 (ref. 6):
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Figure 4: Some examples of elusive synthetic carbon allotropes:

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A.H. thanks GRAPENOCHEM and the Cluster of Excellence EAM for financial support.

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  1. Andreas Hirsch is in the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Interdisciplinary Center of Molecular Materials (ICMM), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Henkestrasse 42, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. andreas.hirsch@chemie.uni-erlangen.de,

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Hirsch, A. The era of carbon allotropes. Nature Mater 9, 868–871 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2885

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