THE STRINGS OF MULTISHELL BUCKYBALLS

New forms of carbon, such as fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, are expe cted to have a wide variety of interesting properties. Recent developm ents in synthetic technique have allowed the synthesis of a new number of the family, the strings of multi-shell buckyballs, and the generat ion of macroscopic amount of the material. In this research, we have d etailed the structure of the strings of multi-shell buckyballs with hi gh resolution transmission electron microscopy and found that this mat erial is different from graphitic onion and graphitic polyhedron in bo th morphology and forming condition. We also have discussed the formin g mechanism of the strings of multi-shell buckyballs in this paper.