- A fullerene is a molecule of carbon in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, tube, and many other shapes.
- Spherical fullerenes, also referred to as Buckminsterfullerenes or buckyballs, resemble the balls used in association football.
- Cylindrical fullerenes are also called carbon nanotubes (buckytubes).
- Fullerenes are similar in structure to graphite, which is composed of stacked graphene sheets of linked hexagonal rings.
- Unless Fullerene are cylindrical, they must also contain pentagonal (or sometimes heptagonal) rings.
- The first fullerene molecule to be discovered, and the family's namesake, buckminsterfullerene (C60), was manufactured in 1985 by Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, James Heath, Sean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University.
- Since the discovery of fullerenes in 1985, structural variations on fullerenes have evolved well beyond the individual clusters themselves.
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