Buckyball: a C60 molecule


1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the discovery of fullerenes!


A Buckminsterfullerene molecule is a closed cage structure molecule with carbon network.
(See also The Fullerene Patent Database.)


(1) Buckyball with single- (red) and double- (yellow) bonds highlighted

(2) Buckyball with single- (red) and double- (yellow) bonds highlighted

(3) Buckyball with single- (red) and double- (yellow) bonds highlighted [buckyball.ps.Z]

(4) C60 face-centered cubic (fcc) crystall

(5) C60 face-centered cubic (fcc) crystall

(6) A buckyball and its Connolly surface

(7) C60 face-centered cubic (fcc) crystall [lattice.ps.Z]

(8) C60 face-centered cubic (fcc) crystall

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Note: Pictures (6) and (8) copyright other authors.