Aside from DNA’s famous double helix, this is probably the most beautiful molecular structure I’ve ever seen. It’s certainly got one of the coolest names: though it’s C60, exactly sixty carbon atoms arranged into a ball, it’s known as buckminsterfullerene, an homage to Buckminster Fuller, he of the geodesic dome. As if that wasn’t cool enough, C60 is the most massive and most complex object ever to have been demonstrated to show a wave-particle duality.
YAAAY A BUCKYBALL. Chemistry might be over, but who can forget this lovely carbon structure?
