A buckyball is a kind of spherical or ellipsoidal cage composed up of covalently bonded carbon atoms. It is a fullerene, alternate allotrope (arrangement) of carbon, alongside graphite and diamond. C60 is the initial fullerene invented, and is called as buckminsterfullerene, after architect Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, which the molecule resembles. Fullerenes, comprising the buckyball, are extremely strong but associatively cos…