Fullerene & Carbon Allotropes — C60, sp² Bonds & Chirality

⚛ Fullerene & Allotropes

C60 (buckminsterfullerene) is a truncated icosahedron: 60 sp²-hybridized carbons arranged in 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons. Carbon nanotubes are rolled graphene sheets — their chiral vector (n,m) determines diameter and electronic character: metallic if (n−m) mod 3 = 0, otherwise semiconductor.

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