Harry Kroto and Richard Smalley, the experimental chemists who discovered C60 named it "buckminsterfullerene", in recognition of the architect Buckminster Fuller, who was well-known for building ...

Moreover, the fullerene family itself has grown as other examples — such as rugby-ball-shaped C 70 — have been discovered. As well as looking at the properties of the pristine fullerenes ...

Fullerene sind fußballartige Kohlenstoffgebilde. Wichtig ist, daß es sich hierbei um graphitartigen Kohlenstoff handelt, während die klassischen Kohlenstoffmodifikationen Diamant ( Abb. 1) und Graphit ...