History
The serendipitous discovery of a third allotropic form of carbon in 1985, uncovered a fundamentally different structure of closed carbon cages, which eventually became known as fullerenes. This new family of non-planar carbon compounds generated immense interest within the scientific community in a short period of time, with thousands of papers published about fullerenes and fullerene-based materials in the 1990s.
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