High Purity 99.99% C60 powder Fullerene C60 Cas 99685-96-8

Fullerene C60 oil, or buckminsterfullerene, refers to an allotrope molecule of carbon. Initially discovered in 1980 by Japanese physicist Sumio Iijima, C60 was the first carbon fullerene discovered outside of the commonly known graphite, graphene, diamond, and charcoal carbon allotropes. Colloquially known as “buckyballs,” buckministerfullerene molecules are identifiable under an electron microscope by their spherical shapes, which are said to resemble the balls used in European football (North American soccer). Specifically, a C60 molecule takes the shape of a truncated icosahedron, which is composed of twelve pentagonal faces, twenty hexagonal faces, sixty vertices, and ninety edges.