Fullerene vs. Graphene

Fullerenenoun

(inorganic chemistry) Any of a class of allotropes of carbon having hollow molecules whose atoms lie at the vertices of a polyhedron having 12 pentagonal and 2 or more hexagonal faces.

Fullerenenoun

(organic chemistry) Any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms.

Fullerenenoun

The class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes).

Fullerenenoun

a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms

Fullerene

A fullerene is an allotrope of carbon whose molecule consists of carbon atoms connected by single and double bonds so as to form a closed or partially closed mesh, with fused rings of five to seven atoms. The molecule may be a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, tube, or many other shapes and sizes.

Graphenenoun

(organic chemistry) Any polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having the structure of part of a layer of graphite.

Graphenenoun

(inorganic chemistry) An arbitrarily large-scale, one-atom-thick layer of graphite, an allotrope of carbon, that has remarkable electric characteristics.

Graphene

Graphene () is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. The name is derived from and the suffix -ene, reflecting the fact that the graphite allotrope of carbon contains numerous double bonds.