Google Doodle Celebrates Buckyball’s 25th Anniversary today September 4, 2010.When you visit Google, you can see that the third “O” in the word “Google” is changed. So wondering what the ball it is actually a buckyball for which you can spin and rotate it with your mouse thats called buckyballs.
What is buckyball or the Buckminsterfullerene?
Spherical fullerenes are called buckyballs. A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. Cylindrical ones are called carbon nanotubes or buckytubes.A fullerene or bucky ball or buckminsterfullerene was prepared in 1985 by Harold Kroto, James Heath, Sean O’Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University. Buckminsterfullerene (C60) was named after Richard Buckminster Fuller, a noted architectural modeler who popularized the geodesic dome.
Buckyballs and buckytubes have been the subject of intense research, both for their unique chemistry and for their technological applications, especially in materials science, electronics, and nanotechnology.
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