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What Is A Fullerene?

A fullerene is a cage compound, which consists of only carbon atoms. There is a principle of governing these unique molecures. The rule is Euler's theorem, which requires a fullerene contains "2(10 + M)" carbon atoms corresponding to exactly 12 pentagons and hexagons.

Two most important and abundant fullerenes are C60 and C70

Fullerene Giants: Three Chemistry Nobelists

Professor Richard E. Smalley (Rice University)
Professor Robert F. Curl (Rice University)
Profressor Harold Kroto (Sussex University)
They shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of C60 in 1985.

Great Fullerene Chemists

Professor Fran�ois Diederich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH))
Professor Fred Wudl (University of California at Los Angeles)
Professor Yves Rubin (University of California at Los Angeles)
Professor Eiichi Nakamura (University of Tokyo)
Professor Andreas Hirsch(University of Erlangen)
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