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). The 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 fields, including the electronic, optical, biomedical, polymer, energy, and environmental industries (Singh and Srivastava 1995; Smalley and Yakobson 1998; Da Ros and Prato 1999).