Fullerenes Memes

So C60 is the beautiful buckminsterfullerene—a perfect soccer ball of carbon that won a Nobel Prize and made chemists weep with joy. C70 is the slightly elongated rugby ball version, still elegant and symmetric. Then there's C84, which looks like someone tried to assemble IKEA furniture after three beers. The molecular structure becomes increasingly chaotic and asymmetric as you add more carbon atoms, hence the "awfullerenes" label. It's like watching molecular beauty standards deteriorate in real time. Fun fact: there are actually multiple isomers of C84, each more cursed than the last, because apparently nature ran out of good ideas after C70.