✭fullerenes✭

• What are fullerenes?


  Carbon molecules in the form of hollow spheres, tubes, or other shapes.
• What are nanotubes?


  fullerenes where hexagonal sheets of carbon atoms have been rolled up into a tube.
• State the properties of nanotubes.

  conductors of electricity, very strong, light.
• What is nanoscience?

  Study of structures and materials on the nano-meter scale.
• What is a 'buckminsterfullerene'?

  Where 60 carbon atoms are arranged in pentagons + hexagons, to form a ball shape molecule.
• What is the formula for a 'buckminsterfullerene'?


  C60