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Fulleranes and carbon nanostructures in the interstellar medium / Susana Iglesias-Groth and Franco Cataldo -- Infrared and ultraviolet spectra of fulleranes : HREELS studies and implications for the interstellar medium / Carlo Carraro, Roya Maboudian, and Conrad R. Stoldt -- The potential role played by the fullerene-like structures of interstellar carbon dust in the formation of molecular hydrogen in space / Franco Cataldo and Susana Iglesias-Groth -- Thermodynamic properties of fullerene hydrides C₆₀H₂[subscript n] and equilibria of their reactions / Gennady J. Kabo, Larisa S. Karpushenkava, and Yauheni U. Paulechka -- Fulleranes by direct reaction with hydrogen gas at elevated conditions / Alexandr V. Talyzin -- Chemical methods to prepare [60]fulleranes / Jonathan B. Briggs and Glen P. Miller -- Synthesis, stability and spectroscopy of perdeuterofulleranes : C₆₀D₃₆ and C₇₀D₃₈ evidences of isotope effects / Franco Cataldo, Susana Iglesias-Groth, and Arturo Manchado -- Isotope effect in the UV photolysis of hydrogenated and perdeuterated fulleranes / Franco Cataldo, Susana Iglesias-Groth, and Arturo Manchado -- Characterization of hydrogenated fullerenes by NMR spectroscopy / Mattias Hedenström, Thoma Wågberg, and Dan Johnels -- Low temperature infrared spectroscopy of C₆₀ and C₇₀ fullerenes and fullerane C₆₀H₁₈ / Franco Cataldo, Susana Iglesias-Groth, and Arturo Manchado -- High-pressure hydrogenated carbon nanostructures / A.V. Bazhenov, I.O. Bashkin, and K.P. Meletov -- Topological modeling of C₆₀H₃₆ hydrides / Ottorino Ori ... [et al.].