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Book Descriptions:

Endohedral fullerenes represent a novel family of carbon nanostructures, which are characterized by a robust fullerene cage with atoms, ions, or clusters trapped in its interior. Since the first separation of the endohedral metallofullerene La@C₈₂ in 1991, a large variety of endohedral structures have been isolated and their endohedral nature has been proved by experimental studies. Within the past two decades, the world of endohedral fullerenes was significantly enlarged by the clusterfullerenes and the new carbon cages including non-IPR (IPR=isolated pentagon rule) structures. Resulting from the charge transfer from the encaged species to the fullerene cage, endohedral fullerenes hold a lot of fascinating properties inaccessible by the empty fullerenes, and consequently promise potential applications in biomedicine, molecular electronics and photonics etc.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of endohedral fullerenes focused on the new advances in the past decade, including its fundamentals (structures), synthesis, isolation, characterization, properties, functionalization as well as the applications, thus representing the most updated and broad review of this exciting field.

Contents:

• The Early Days of Metallofullerene Research (Hisanori Shinohara)
• Synthesis and Isolation of Endohedral Fullerenes — A General Review (Fupin Liu, Jian Guan, Tao Wei, Song Wang and Shangfeng Yang)
• Crystallographic Study of Endohedral Metallofullerenes (Yun-Peng Xie, Shasha Zhao and Xing Lu)
• Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes — New Advances and Challenges (Tao Wei, Song Wang, Fupin Liu, Jian Guan, Alexey A Popov, Lothar Dunsch and Shangfeng Yang)
• Metal Carbide Clusterfullerenes (Taishan Wang and Chunru Wang)
• The Discovery of Non-IPR Fullerenes (Wei Xu, Chunying Shu and Chunru Wang)
• Metal Oxide Clusterfullerenes (Steven Stevenson)
• Nitrogen Atom-Based Endohedral Fullerenes and Potential Applications (B J Farrington and K Porfyrakis)
• Noble-Gas Fullerenes (R James Cross, Jr)
• Electrochemical Properties of Endohedral Metallofullerenes (Luis Echegoyen, Frederic Melin and Manuel N Chaur)
• Chemical Functionalization of Endohedral Metallofullerenes (Yutaka Maeda)
• Computational Studies of Endohedral Fullerenes: Bonding, Isomerism, Internal Dynamics, Spectroscopy, and Chemical Reactivity (Alexey A Popov)
• Biomedical Applications of Trimetallic Nitride Endohedral Metallofullerenes (Jianyuan Zhang, Boris M Kiselev, Youqing Ye and Harry C Dorn)
• Higher LUMO Level Endohedral Fullerene and Fullerene Bisadduct Acceptors for Polymer Solar Cells (Yongfang Li)

Readership: Advanced undergraduates and graduate students, scientists in Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science, researchers and professionals in the fields of fullerenes and all-carbon nanomaterials, and the general public.

Endohedral Fullerenes:From Fundamentals to Applications by Yang Shangfeng Et Al

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