Buckminster Fullerene is a new(ish) carbon structure. Unlike diamond, which is a rigid 3D tetrahedral lattice, or graphite, which is planes of hexagons, Bucky Balls are truncated icosahedra.

There's loads about Bucky Balls on the web, but here's a good page:

* http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/lab/buckyball/

Scott Kellog loves bucky balls and the buckytubes built from them; his Internet comic ''21st Century Fox'' is full of that stuff. Check it out at:

http://techfox.keenspace.com/