fullerene

Meanings

Plural: fullerenes

Noun

• a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms
• 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.
• Any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms.
• The class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes).

Related Words

buckminsterfullerene, buckyball, buckytube, fullerane, fulleride, fulleroid, nanoparticle, nanotube