Buckminster Fullerenes

Buckminster Fullerenes:

Buckminster Fullerenes were discovered in 1985 at the university of Sussex and Rice University, by Robert Curl, Harold Kroto, and Richard Smalley. They belong to the carbon allotropes, and were named after Richard Buckminster Fuller, and are sometimes referred to as “buckyballs”. They are entirely made up from carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, or tube. several very important uses have been discovered over the years in the field of nanotechnology. Their structure is very similar to the one of graphite, which consists of a sheet of hexagonal rings, with pentagonal ring within each other to prevent the sheet from being planar.