Sentences with phrase «as buckyball»

Imagine taking a fullerene (C60, also known as a buckyball) and cutting it in half like a melon (also known as a buckybowl).

These include magnets found in construction sets, children's toys or stress - relieving adult desk toys; refrigerator magnets; and rare earth magnets such as Buckyballs.

Today, fullerenes — which are popularly known as buckyballs — are being investigated for everything from new superconductors and three - dimensional polymers, to catalysts and optical materials, although they have yet to spawn any commercial applications.

Nanoparticles such as buckyballs and carbon nanotubes are already with us — and one concern is that they might present different dangers to bulk versions of the same materials.

Carbon - 60 molecules, also known as buckyballs, were combined with amines in a compound that absorbs a fifth of its weight in carbon dioxide.

Not exact matches

Actually I was questioning buckyball's whole bit about the whole concept of hell as being only derived from the Hellenistic concept... DUH...

Actually I was questioning buckyball's whole bit about the whole concept of hell as being only derived from the Hellenistic concept.

The finding shows that buckyballs «act as an effective antioxidant,» sweeping up free radicals, says Jonathan Gitlin, a pediatric neurologist at Washington University.

Previous studies have shown that crystals of buckyballs — carbon spheres officially known as fullerenes — can superconduct at temperatures as high as 52 kelvin.

Cary Baur, a doctoral student in Voit's lab, has figured out a way to incorporate organic nanostructures known as «buckyballs» and single - walled carbon nanotubes into PVDF fibers to double its piezoelectric performance.

The team exposed a sample of crystals, known as Buckminsterfullerene or Buckyballs, to intense light emitted from the world's first hard X-ray free electron laser (XFEL), based at Stanford University in the United States.

Despite this, they were able to identify the structure of the most stable cluster, Ti8C12, as a cage of 20 atoms resembling a miniature buckyball.

Until the molecules can be extracted and grown as pure crystals, their buckyball - like structure can not be confirmed by X-ray analysis.

The Rice lab used buckyballs as crosslinkers between amines, nitrogen - based molecules drawn from polyethyleneimine.

Now, as chemists report online today in Nature, buckyballs — complex molecules with 60 carbon atoms arranged into what look like the geodesic domes of R. Buckminster Fuller — do indeed exist in the space between the stars.

In the past few decades we have learned about the soccer - ball - shaped spheres called buckyballs, soon followed by the microscopic rolls of chicken wire we know as carbon nanotubes.

Leigh enlisted the help of another colleague, zeolite researcher Mike Anderson, who suggested using a related material, known as VPI - 5, to trap buckyballs.

There were a number of limits to the study, but researchers noted that the buckyballs worked as a potent antioxidant.

New experiments carried out with huge molecules called buckyballs show that quantum reality extends into the macroscopic world as well.

The buckyball wheels can be imaged with a scanning tunneling microscope, which researchers have used to prove that the nanocars really roll on their wheels, as opposed to simply sliding along.