Fullerenes
8/28/2010
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Fullerenes small carbon particle forming hollow
spheres, ellipsoids, tubes or planes. The small hollow spheres consisting of
around 60 atoms and also called buckyballs.
These were discovered in1985 by Tobert Curl, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley
and are named after Richard Buckminster Fuller who developed the geodesic dome
which is the basic atomic structure of fullerene. These structures are
sufficiently stable to be a molecule, which can react and even form polymers.
C60, C70, C76, and C84 molecules are
found in soot and are formed during atmospheric lightning. Other atoms may
be trapped inside the fullerene structure to form inclusion compounds,
endohedral
fullerenes. (RDC 6/22/2008)
[Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene ]
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