Fullerene Fulgurites

When lightening strikes sand, it melts it, to form hollow glass tubes called fulgurites.
This idea started as a way to make fulgurate sculptures by building a wire structure in a large container of beach sand and attaching either a lightening rod or firing a model rocket trailing a thin wire into a storm cloud. When lightening strikes, the bolt should follow the wire form as this will be its path of least resistance.
Once the sand has cooled openings in the bottom of the container will let the sand come pouring out revealing a lightening bolt sculpture.
I figure this is pretty cool in its own right, but there's more.
By carefully layering the sand and adding various chemicals to the areas around the individual wires I think that color could be infused in the glass. Objects could be imbedded as well. Also, fulgurites can be man made allowing for a fine tuning of the process which will create the strongest and largest sculptures. The world record for a naturally occurring fulgurite is a fork sixteen feet long on one side and seventeen on the other.

I'm not sure why, but day dreaming about this got me to thinking about how Fullerene is formed.
I think that by making the container a vacuum sealed chamber with a Helium atmosphere and filled with graphite instead of sand, that Fullerene Buckyball, (carbon nano tube icosahedrons), fulgurites will be formed as the lightening arcs through the graphite.