Buckyball technology. Computer artwork of a spherical fullerene (buckyball) enclosed between two carbon sheets. The molecular model shows the hexagona

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Buckyball technology. Computer artwork of a spherical fullerene (buckyball) enclosed between two carbon sheets. The molecular model shows the hexagonal and pentagonal carbon structure found on the surface of spherical fullerenes. Fullerenes are a structural form (allotrope) of carbon. Other forms of fullerenes include carbon nanotubes, which are cylindrical in shape. Sheets of carbon are found in a different allotrope of carbon, graphite. Theoretically, a wide range of molecular shapes can be engineered at the molecular level using fullerenes. Such structures could have a wide range of technological and medical uses.

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Size: 4000px × 3000px
Photo credit: © LAGUNA DESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: artwork, ball, buckyball, chemical, chemistry, computer, engineering, fullerene, illustration, macromolecule, macromolecules, materials, medical, medicine, molecular, molecule, nanotechnology, organic, science, sheet, structure, technological, technology