CARBON

1. CARBON The 3 allotropes of

2. T h e t h r e e a l l o t r o p e s o f c a r b o n a r e: T h e t h r e e a l l o t r o p e s o f c a r b o n a r e: T h e t h r e e a l l o t r o p e s o f c a r b o n a r e: diamond Buckminster–fullerenes graphites

3. The buckminster-fullerenes were discovered in 1985 by a team of scientists from Rice University and the University of Sussex, three of whom were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They are named for the resemblance of their alliotropic structure to the geodesic structures devised by the scientist and architect Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller. Fullerenes are molecules of different sizes composed entirely of carbon, which take the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. As of the early twenty-first century, the chemical and physical properties of fullerenes are still under heavy study. 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.