Wrong Buckyballs. The article you referred to were about toys/hobby materials with extremely strong magnets in them. The real buckyballs, full name buckminsterfullerene, is 60 carbon atoms in a geodesic sphere, called that because of Fuller’s fascination with geodesic domes for houses.
He’s talking about these:
http://buckyball.smalley.rice.edu/
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/05/buckyball_rice_plaques.php
http://www.nanotech-now.com/nanotube-buckyball-sites.htm