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Bucky Balls
 
Spherical fullerenes are known as bucky balls as they looks like soccer balls. Since the structure is similar to the geodesic domes(having pentagonal and hexagonal patterns) designed by American Architect, Robert Buckminster Fuller, it was named Buckminsterfullerene.
 
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Buckyball: Tiny Carbon Soccer Balls

Silicones
 
Silicones are group of organosilicon polymers with $$-(R_2SiO)-$$ as the repeating unit. These may be linear, cyclic, or cross-linked. Silicones have very high thermal stability and are called high temperature polymers.
 
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What are Silicones?: Structure and Uses

Cyclic and Chain Silicates
 
Silicates are the compounds of silicon and oxygen. The basic builing unit of all silicates is the tetrahedral $$SiO_4^{4-}$$ ion. The different types of silicates such as cyclic, chain, sheet are formed when silicate units are linked together.
 
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Some P-Block Elements