Fullerenes in Popular Culture - Other

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  • Tagon's Toughs, the mercenaries in the web comic Schlock Mercenary, often use fullerene personal combat armour, worn as regular clothes. The title character, Schlock, is a carbo-silicate amorph whose body consists largely of nanotubes.
  • In his blog 'Old Scrote's Home', Jake Allsop takes over the education of wildfowl where Konrad Lorentz left off, by teaching Mallard to appreciate nanotechnology.
  • On 4 September 2010, Google used an interactively rotatable fullerene C60 as the second 'o' in its logo to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the fullerenes.

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