Researched
Fullerenes
Kroto, Curl and Smalley discover the C60 'buckyball' (1985), the first of a new family of carbon nanostructures.
Open in the interactive tree →Laser-vaporised graphite produced a football-shaped molecule of 60 carbon atoms (Nobel Prize 1996). Carbon nanotubes (1991) and graphene (2004) followed.
Prerequisites
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- Graphene & 2D Materials2004Fullerenes and nanotubes preceded graphene as carbon nanostructures