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Buckyball 25th Anniversary Celebrations

Buckyball 25th Anniversary Commemorated in Google Doodle – Google is celebrating the 25th anniversary of buckyball today, September 4, 2010. When you visit Google, you can see that the second “O” in the word “Google” is actually a buckyball for which you can spin and rotate it with your mouse.

But what is a Buckyball? You might have heard about balls such as a basketball, volleyball, football, etc. but how about a buckyball? Buckyballs are spherical fullerenes, a molecule composed entirely of carbon. Buckyballs are named after Buckminster Fuller, who popularized it. The discovery of buckyballs and fullerenes in general greatly expanded the number of known carbon allotropes, which until recently were limited to graphite, diamond, and amorphouscarbon such as soot and charcoal.

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Buckminsterfullerene or “buckyballs” for short, have been the subject of intense research of scientists and chemists, both for their unique chemistry and for their technological applications, especially in materials science, electronics, and nanotechnology. Buckyballs is one of the tools used in nanotechnology which are useful in the field of medicine. The Doctors can use buckyballs in gene therapy to send genes into human cells. In space, astronomers first discovered about buckyballs in NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.

Below is a video from Getbuckyballs.com which describes buckyballs as an amazing desk toys you can’t put down:

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