Graphene is an allotrope of carbon. Its structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. The term graphene was coined as a combination of graphite and the suffix -ene by…
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The Discovery of Fullerenes
Carbon, the basis of life, is one of the most common elements and one of the most studied; it comprises the whole discipline of organic chemistry. A study of pure carbon would not seem all that exciting to most chemists.…
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Tagged with: American Chemical Society, Buckminster, Buckminster Fuller, buckyball, C60, carbon, Discovery of Fullerene, Fullerene, Harry Kroto, James Heath, Rice University, Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, Smalley
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