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Molecular soccer balls linked in two dimensions

Two-dimensional materials made of carbon have been limited to monolayers of atoms, such as graphene. Sheets composed of connected buckyballs — spherical clusters of atoms — have now been made by peeling layers from a crystal.

Nature Volume 606 Issue 7914

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