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 field of chemistry and materials science. Buckminsterfullerene, named after American...

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 atoms, and there was diamond, in which the carbon atoms formed...

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 bonded atoms, and there was diamond, in which the carbon atoms...

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 of hexagonal faces. The non-metallic element carbon, atomic number 6, is...

Any of a class of all-carbon molecules whose atoms are arranged in closed hollow shells. Allotropes of carbon first identified in 1985, they have varying (but even) numbers of atoms bonded into structures having 12 pentagonal and 2 or more hexagonal...

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