Definition of "fullerenes" [fullerenes]

• Plural form of fullerene. (noun)

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• "The designation fullerenes is taken from the name of an American architect, R. Buckminster Fuller, who had designed a dome having the form of a football for the"
• "We are delighted that our contribution in the discovery of the carbon cage molecules that we called the fullerenes is being recognized."
• "The subsequent development of my research in metal and semiconductor clusters, and the fullerenes is too involved to recount here."