ABSTRACT
Fullerene is the general name designated for the closed-caged carbon-based molecules that are made up entirely of both pentagonal and hexagonal plane structures, usually referred to as the third allotrope of pure carbon (Goodson et al. 1995). e intriguing properties of fullerenes have attracted much attention for their use in a wide range of applications and have thus stimulated intensive research work on novel fullerene-based materials in many elds, including the electronic, optical, biomedical, polymer, energy, and environmental industries (Singh and Srivastava 1995; Smalley and Yakobson 1998; Da Ros and Prato 1999).
