Possible carbon fullerene advance to spintronics, molecular electronics and quantum computing
Stable carbon-80 fullerene (C79B) would be an electron short, instead of having an extra electron. There would be the components of a molecular semiconductor. C79N (carbon 80 with one carbon changed to a nitrogen) would have an extra electron. “No one has done anything like this,” said Harry Dorn of Virginia Tech. “Since the article …