Buckyballs: Carbon Goes 3-D
Overview
In 1985 Harold Kroto (1939- ), Robert Curl (1933- ), and Richard Smalley (1943- ) discovered a novel form of pure carbon, called fullerenes, and opened up a new fi...
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Fullerene
As recently as 1984, carbon was thought to exist in only two solid forms (allotropes). There was graphite, in which the carbon atoms arranged themselves as layered sheets of hexagonally bond...
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Buckminsterfullerene
Buckminsterfullerene (also known as buckyballs) are one of a class of hollow, aromatic carbon compounds constructed of carbon atoms arranged in 12 pentagonal and variable numbers ...
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Buckminsterfullerene
As recently as 1984, carbon was thought to exist in only two solid forms. There was graphite, in which the carbon atoms arranged themselves as layered sheets of hexagonally bonded...
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Buckyballs: Carbon Goes 3-D
Fullerene
Buckminsterfullerene
Buckminsterfullerene