noun
fullerene
Chemistry term for a carbon allotrope with a hollow spherical, ellipsoidal, or tubular structure; the most famous example is C60 (buckminsterfullerene).
フラーレンは炭素の同素体の一つです。
Fullerene is one of the allotropes of carbon.
この研究ではフラーレンの光学的性質を調べた。
In this research, we investigated the optical properties of fullerenes.