Pioneering nanoscientist Richard Smalley, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering buckyballs, died today of cancer. He was 62. Read | via
Buckyballs, named after American architect, Richard Buckminster Fuller, who designed a geodesic dome with essentially the same symmetry, are football (soccer ball) shaped, hollow molecules consisting of 60 carbon atoms. They do occur in nature, but were only discovered, in a lab, in 1985.
The molecule has had a huge impact on materials science, since its discovery, and it has potential application in pharmaceuticals, fuel cells and so on. However, there are concerns about the effect they may have on human and animal health. read on, plus... wikipedia
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