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