“The molecule, buckminsterfullerene, is beautiful physically and intellectually. Its qualities, and even some of its properties, can be appreciated instantly and intuitively by nonscientists. Its uniqueness is bound to lead to novel applications – superconductivity is the leading contender at the moment”. So the journalist Hugh Aldersey-Williams presented in his book about C₆₀ fullerene, “The Most Beautiful Molecule”, first published in 1995. Despite being quite old, this sentence is still strongly valid. In fact, since their discovery in 1985, fullerenes have raised huge interest among the scientific community, and they still preserve and increase it. This resulted in an impressive amount of research dealing with the molecule and its derivatives, and most of these studies have been collected in numerous reviews concerning fullerene's various properties and applications. Precisely due to the existence of these uncountable reviews, the present paper will take a slightly different path by describing important facts about fullerenes in the field of photovoltaics.

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富勒烯：光伏之星

“该分子buckminsterfullerene在物理和智力上都很漂亮。非科学家可以立即直观地了解其质量，甚至其某些特性。它的独特性必将导致新颖的应用-超导性是目前的主要竞争者。” 因此，记者休·阿尔德西·威廉姆斯（Hugh Aldersey-Williams）在其有关C _60的书中作了介绍富勒烯，“最美丽的分子”，于1995年首次出版。尽管这句话很老，但仍然很有效。实际上，自1985年发现富勒烯以来，富勒烯在科学界引起了极大的兴趣，并且仍在保存和增加。这导致了有关分子及其衍生物的大量研究，并且其中许多研究已在有关富勒烯的各种性质和应用的众多评论中进行了收集。正是由于这些无数的评论的存在，本文将通过描述光伏领域中有关富勒烯的重要事实而采取略有不同的路径。