摘要

<正>The recent history of nanocarbon materials has been dominated by the spectacular rise of graphene and its myriad applications [1].In this phase of rapid development, it is easy to overlook the central role played by fullerenes in the evolution of modern nanoscience that followed the pioneering work of Kroto at the University of Sussex, and Curl and Smalley at Rice University[2,3]. Fullerene research remains a vibrant field, with much attention focusing on the ability of these ball-like molecules to encapsulate other atoms during vapour-phase synthesis processes [4].