What are Buckminster fullerenes?

Answer 1

Also called buckyball, C₆₀ and C₇₀ are the first of this class of carbon allotrope* to be discovered. Since their discovery back in 1985 by Richard Smalley** et. al. of Rice University, buckyball has ignited a wide range of research and applications. For details, check out Wikipedia links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene

1. * A group of elemental substance with the same element but different structural composition and vastly different properties, Diamond, graphite, charcoal, graphene, nano-tube, buckyball are allotropes of carbon.
2. ** see https://ethw.org/Discovering_the_Buckyball