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Fostiropoulos et al. researched these molecules' use as electron acceptors in organic solar cells. SAMOs were discovered in one of these molecules, which was first commercially produced with the Krätschmer-Huffman method. These molecules are functionalized by adding azomethine ylides in the Prato reaction. Strain energy is estimated (10[1])to be 80 percent of the heat of formation of one of these molecules first discovered in soot at Rice University. (10[1])Eiji (10[1])Osawa predicted the existence of that one (-5[1])of these molecules while studying corannulene, another geodesic polyarene. (10[1])These molecules are commonly named with the empirical formula Cn, (10[1])and they are prevented from being planar like graphene by having both pentagonal and hexagonal rings. For 10 points, a 60-carbon allotrope (10[1])prefixed (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: fullerenes [or buckminsterfullerenes; prompt on buckyballs; prompt on carbon nanotubes or CNTs]
<Sean Farrell , Science - Chemistry - Organic>
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