Nanotechnology · Recorded milestone
Buckyballs (fullerenes)
Recorded year1985
Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley and Robert Curl vaporise graphite with a laser and find C60, a football-shaped cage of 60 carbon atoms.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.