{"id":177051,"date":"2023-11-29T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T22:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/a-fullerene-like-molecule-made-entirely-of-metal-atoms"},"modified":"2023-11-29T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T22:24:19","slug":"a-fullerene-like-molecule-made-entirely-of-metal-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/a-fullerene-like-molecule-made-entirely-of-metal-atoms","title":{"rendered":"A fullerene-like molecule made entirely of metal atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-fullerene-like-molecule-made-entirely-of-metal-atoms3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small team of chemists from Nankai University, Nanjing Tech University and Shanxi University, all in China, working with a colleague from Universidad San Sebasti\u00e1n, in Chile, has, for the first time, created a fullerene-like molecule made entirely of metal atoms.<\/p>\n<p>In their paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adj6491\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science<\/i>, the group describes how they created the molecule by accident while they were conducting research experiments with antimony, potassium and gold atoms.<\/p>\n<p>A fullerene is a form of carbon where its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecules<\/a> are connected by single and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/double+bonds\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">double bonds<\/a> which result in the formation of a closed cage-like structure. It was first realized in 1985 and since that time analogous inorganic fullerenes have been created using a variety of compounds. But until now, none of them have been purely metal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small team of chemists from Nankai University, Nanjing Tech University and Shanxi University, all in China, working with a colleague from Universidad San Sebasti\u00e1n, in Chile, has, for the first time, created a fullerene-like molecule made entirely of metal atoms. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they created [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}