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Buckminster fullerene (c60 or fullerene-60),is the archetypal member of the fullerenes.otherstable members of the fullerene family have similarstructures.the fullerenes can beconsidered,after graphite and diamond,to be thethird well-defined allotrope of carbon.the fullerenes promise to have synthetic,pharmaceutical, and industrial applications.derivatives have been found to exhibit fascinatingelectrical and magnetic behavior, in particularsuperconductivity and ferromagnetism.the properties of fullerene materials that have been determined suggest that there is likely to be a wide range of areas in which the fullerenes or their derivatives will have uses. the facility for acceptance and release of electrons suggests a possible role as a charge carrier in batteries. fullerene nanotubes, tiny, tubular carbon fibers, were recently cut into open-ended pipes for the first time. this allows them to be chemically manipulated for use in nanotechnologies and materials. the attachment of molecules to the ends of the pipes lets them serve as means of binding to other chemical groups or surfaces.