Otterbein Chemistry Department

Buckyballs and Friends

 

 

 C60 (Buckyball)

The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the discovery of this molecule.

 

 C70 (a larger buckyball)

 

 Bucky Tube

(a more recent discovery in the chemistry of fullerenes)

 

 Buckyball inside a Buckytube!

 


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