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  2. Buckminsterfullerene - Wikipedia

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    Buckminsterfullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C 60. ... after American architect R. Buckminster Fuller, ... Kai College detailing the properties of ...

  3. Fullerene - Wikipedia

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    The family is named after buckminsterfullerene (C 60), the most famous member, which in turn is named after Buckminster Fuller. The closed fullerenes, especially C 60, are also informally called buckyballs for their resemblance to the standard ball of association football ("soccer"). Nested closed fullerenes have been named bucky onions.

  4. Buckminster Fuller - Wikipedia

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    Fuller taught at Black Mountain College in North ... Buckminsterfullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C 60. The names are homages to Buckminster ...

  5. Allotropes of carbon - Wikipedia

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    The buckminsterfullerenes, or usually just fullerenes or buckyballs for short, were discovered in 1985 by a team of scientists from Rice University and the University of Sussex, three of whom were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They are named for the resemblance to the geodesic structures devised by Richard Buckminster "Bucky ...

  6. Polyfullerene - Wikipedia

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    Polyfullerene is a basic polymer of the C 60 monomer group, in which fullerene segments are connected via covalent bonds into a polymeric chain without side or bridging groups. They are called intrinsic polymeric fullerenes, or more often all C 60 polymers. Fullerene can be part of a polymer chain in many different ways.

  7. Richard Smalley - Wikipedia

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    The result of this collaboration was the discovery of C 60 (known as Buckyballs) and the fullerenes as the third allotropic form of carbon. [8] Smalley recognized that the structure of C 60 was like that of a soccer ball after cutting and tapping hexagons together in a three-dimensional manner, utilizing 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. [9]

  8. Harry Kroto - Wikipedia

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    [17] [18] [19] The C 60 molecule is a molecule with the same symmetry pattern as a football, consisting of 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons of carbon atoms. [20] Kroto named the molecule buckminsterfullerene, after Buckminster Fuller who had conceived of the geodesic domes, as the dome concept had provided a clue to the likely structure of the new ...

  9. Spherical aromaticity - Wikipedia

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    For example, in buckminsterfullerene (C 60) this happens for the species C 60 10+, which has 50 π-electrons: 50/2 = 25, which is a perfect square. [1] In 2011, Jordi Poater and Miquel Solà expanded Hirsch's rule to open-shell spherical compounds, which have unfilled outer shells but are still aromatic.