fullerene

After Richard Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.

fullerene (plural fullerenes)

1. (inorganic chemistry) Any of a class of allotropes of carbon having hollow molecules whose atoms lie at the vertices of a polyhedron having 12 pentagonal and 2 or more hexagonal faces.
2. (organic chemistry) Any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms.
3. (chemistry, by extension) The class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes).

• buckminsterfullerene
• fullerane
• fulleride
• fulleroid

• buckyball
• buckytube
• nanoparticle
• nanotube

• “Fullerene” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
• “fullerene”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

fullerene m (plural fullereni)

1. fullerene