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Kroto, Smalley, and Curl discovered a new allotrope of carbon in 1985 called buckminsterfullerene or buckyballs. Buckyballs are made of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a hollow spherical structure resembling a soccer ball, with 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons. This discovery ignited excitement as it was a new form of elemental carbon and opened up research into fullerenes and nanotechnology. Kroto, Smalley, and Curl were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of buckyballs.

Author

Abdul Fatakh Qureshi

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