Saturday, August 24, 2013

What are fullerenes?


Fullerenes are closed hollow cages consisting of carbon atoms interconnected in pentagonal and hexagonal rings. Each carbon atom on the cage surface is bonded to three carbon neighbors therefore is sp2 hybridized common clusters are C70, C72, C74, C76, C80, C82 and C84 The most famous fullerene is C60, known also by “ buckyball ".