what is buckminster ?

Answer 1

Buckminster Fuller was the guy who first introduced carbon nanostructures in the 80s, now known as fullerenes. The general class of fullerenes includes carbon nanotubes, nanocones, nanorods, and bucky balls (C60).

Answer 2

The buckminster fullerenes are a recently-discovered family of carbon allotropes. They are molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. Spherical fullerenes are sometimes called buckyballs, the C60 variant is often compared to the typical white and black soccer football, the Telstar (football) of 1970. Cylindrical fullerenes are called buckytubes. Fullerenes are similar in structure to graphite, which is composed of a sheet of linked hexagonal rings, but they contain pentagonal (or sometimes heptagonal) rings that prevent the sheet from being planar.

Buckminsterfullerene (C60) was named after Richard Buckminster Fuller, a noted architect who popularized the geodesic dome. Since buckminsterfullerenes have a similar shape to that sort of dome, the name was thought to be appropriate. As the discovery of the fullerene family came after buckminsterfullerene, the name was shortened to illustrate that the latter is a type of the former.

For the past decade, the chemical and physical properties of fullerenes have been a hot topic in the field of research and development, and are likely to continue to be for a long time. In April 2003, fullerenes were under study for potential medicinal use: binding specific antibiotics to the structure to target resistant bacteria and even target certain cancer cells such as melanoma. The October 2005 issue of Chemistry and Biology contains an article describing the use of fullerenes as light-activated antimicrobial agents.
In the field of nanotechnology, heat resistance and superconductivity are some of the more heavily studied properties.

A common method used to produce fullerenes is to send a large current between two nearby graphite electrodes in an inert atmosphere. The resulting carbon plasma arc between the electrodes cools into sooty residue from which many fullerenes can be isolated

Hope you understand

Answer 3

Just a response to Cols answer:

Buckminster Fuller was an architect in the mid 20th century who used geodesic domes in many of his creations.

Buckyballs (C60 and C70) were discovered by Smalley, Curl and Kyoto and named for Fuller as buckyballs resemble geodesic domes.

Answer 4

buckminster fullerene, commonly called a bucky ball, is a complex carbon structure. it's a soccer ball shape C60 or C70 on average. it can also make nanotubes. this was discovered a few years ago and spurned the nanorevolution

Answer 5

It is B, C60 has the shape of a soccer ball, or more accurately, the shape of a dome the architect and philosopher Buckminster designed

Answer 6

is a c60 and c70 hybrid with cc sp2 hybridized linkages. named after architect buckminister fullerene owing to a resembling football structure he made. hence its also called footballene.
continous resonance extra stablizes.

Answer 7

its a town in bucks county PA