Sweet Way to Produce Fullerenes

摘要

The sugars have been turned into fullerene via application to a beach sand substrate and subjected to 400 ℃ with exposure to Ar gas. The material produced is of comparable quality to that produced using current state-of -the -art methods for manufacturing fullerene. A distinct advantage of the present process of making fullerene is that of use of significantly lower temperature of several order of magnitudes and substantially low cost of the raw materials used as compared to the known process which contributes to the cost of the end product. The described method could form the basis of a practical industrial-scale process for fullerene manufacture.