As a representative nanomaterial, C₆₀ and its derivatives have drawn much attention in the field of drug delivery over the past years, due to their unique geometric and electronic structures. Herein, the interactions of hydroxyurea (HU) drug with the pristine C₆₀ and heterofullerene MC₅₉ (M = B, Si, Al) were investigated using the density functional theory calculations. The geometric and electronic properties in terms of adsorption configuration, adsorption energy, Hirshfeld charge, frontier molecular orbitals, and charge density difference are calculated. In contrast to pristine C₆₀, it is found that HU molecule is chemisorbed on the BC₅₉, SiC₅₉, and AlC₅₉ molecules with moderate adsorption energy and apparent charge transfer. Therefore, heterofullerene BC₅₉, SiC₅₉, and AlC₅₉ are expected to be promising carriers for hydroxyurea drug delivery.

In this paper, the nuclear longitudinal form factors are systematically studied from the intrinsic charge multipoles. For axially deformed nuclei, two different types of density profiles are used to describe their charge distributions. For the same charge distributions expanded with different basis functions, the corresponding longitudinal form factors are derived and compared with each other. Results show the multipoles C_λ of longitudinal form factors are independent of the basis functions of charge distributions. Further numerical calculations of longitudinal form factors of ¹²C indicates that the C ₀ multipole reflects the contributions of spherical components of all nonorthogonal basis functions. For deformed nuclei, their charge RMS radii can also be determined accurately by the C ₀ measurement. The studies in this paper examine the model-independent properties of electron scattering, which are useful for interpreting electron scattering experiments on exotic deformed nuclei.

The synthesis of rare-earth neutron-deficient nuclei with large Z/N ratio $\approx${}0.88 is studied within the framework of the standard statistical model. The fusion cross sections are calculated on the basis of the nuclear reaction video model. The deexcitation process is calculated with the help of the statistical code alice. It is found that the excitation functions can be predicted using a few exited experimental data by carefully choosing the input parameters in the statistical model. The results obtained show that a satisfactory description of the experimental evaporation cross sections requires a great reduction in the theoretical fission barriers.