Giant Fullerenes

Presenter: Jonathan Hare

Published: March 2009

Age: 14-19 and upwards

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Type: Lectures

Source/institution: Vega

C-60, the football caged molecule is the head of a family of carbon based structures called the Fullerenes. In this presentation we ook at the larger structures, the giant fullerenes and among other things we will explore the 60n² rule used to estimate the number of atoms within the cages.