In inorganic chemistry terms the difference between fullerene and graphene
is that fullerene is 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 while graphene is an arbitrarily large-scale, one-atom-thick layer of graphite, an allotrope of carbon, that has remarkable electric characteristics.
In organic chemistry terms the difference between fullerene and graphene
is that fullerene is any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms while graphene is any polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having the structure of part of a layer of graphite.
fullerene
English
Noun
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en noun)
(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
(organic chemistry) any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms
(chemistry, by extension)Th e class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes)
Related terms
* buckminsterfullerene
* fullerane
* fulleride
* fulleroid
See also
* buckyball
* buckytube
* nanoparticle
* nanotube
English eponyms
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graphene
Noun
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en noun)
(organic chemistry) Any polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having the structure of part of a layer of graphite.
(inorganic chemistry) An arbitrarily large-scale, one-atom-thick layer of graphite, an allotrope of carbon, that has remarkable electric characteristics.
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Derived terms
* -ene (monolayer materials similar to graphene)
* graphane
* penta-graphene
Related terms
* graphite
See also
* benzene
* cycloalkene
* diamond
* fullerene
