Introduction
In 1970, Osawa, a Japanese scientist, have predicted the existence of a new allotrope of the carbon element, which according to him, would be composed of 60 atoms of carbon. Indeed, in 1985, Sir Harold W. Kroto of the United Kingdom together with Richard E. Smalley and Robert F. Curl, Jr., of the United States discovered the another allotrope of carbon in a research facility of Rice University. Consequently, because of the geodesic structure of the element, they named the newly discovered carbon element as ‘buckminsterfullerene,’ after Buckminster Fuller, the American architect who invented the geodesic dome. Because of Continue reading...
