Sentences with word «buckyball»

The dome's structure inspired an explanation of the architecture of human red blood cells, the discovery of fullerene molecules (which take the form of buckyballs and carbon nanotubes), and ways to process data for robotic vision.

Even though c60 is known to contain «empty states» (of a very special nature known as buckyball superatom states, BSS) capable of accepting electrons, these states are found at very high energies, a feature that makes them difficult to exploit in electronic devices.

He discovered carbon 60, which he named buckminsterfullerene — buckyballs for short — because the molecule carries the structure of geodesic domes created by Buckminster Fuller.

At the University of Vienna, Anton Zeilinger's work with huge molecules called buckyballs pushes quantum reality closer to the macroscopic world.

Micro-machines The nanodragster combines the best of both worlds, with buckyball rear tires and p - carborane front wheels.

A study published in tomorrow's Proceedings of the American Academy of Sciences describes how modified buckyballs — which soak up nerve - destroying chemicals — delay the onset of symptoms in mice suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.

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

It is extremely difficult to assemble buckyballs into strings of exact size for use as transistors and wires, because once they reach a certain length they are hard to purify and manipulate.

Smalley, co-discoverer of carbon buckyballs, argues that the chemistry just does not add up.

Football - shaped buckyballs come from outer space, but can be made with a whack of electricity in the lab.

However, this did not happen, so confirming that trapped buckyballs were stabilising the VPI - 5 structure by keeping the pores open.

(Carbon is an impressive molecule, even apart from buckyballs.)

Several years ago, Luann Becker and Jeffrey Bada of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego found buckyballs — tiny cages of carbon atoms — in the debris of an impact crater in Canada.

Turco says the negatively charged buckyballs may be clinging to organic matter and salts in the soil, limiting their ability to enter bacterial cells.

Introducing buckyballs that may undo our thinking on yet another scientific principle

Castleman believes that metcar cages may behave as superconductors, like buckyballs do.

The gold surface the nanocars race across must reach about 200 °C before buckyballs start turning.

Organic molecules important for life could have been carried to the primordial Earth locked up inside extraterrestrial buckyballs.

Many artificial nanostructures, such as carbon nanotubes (cylindrical siblings of the famous buckyball) or quantum dots, can already be built, but only in extreme environments characterized by hard vacuums, high - intensity radiation, or directed electron beams.

«Buckyballs enhance carbon capture.»

One floor opens with dismembered buckyballs by Michael Zelehoski and a skeletal horse that Deborah Butterfield might have left out to die, by Wendy Klepper.

Dugan and her colleagues added these antioxidant buckyballs to cultured neurons that had been starved of oxygen and glucose (which occurs after a stroke) for an hour.

Soil bacteria survive buckyball treatment, possibly because the soil soaks up the tiny particles

Standard buckyballs wouldn't work since they dissolve only in highly toxic compounds such as benzene.

At Rice University in Houston, researchers found that nanosize buckyballs — 60 carbon atoms bound together in the shape of a soccer ball — can bond to pollutants such as naphthalene, slowing the pace at which the pollutants are naturally neutralized and greatly expanding the distance over which environmental toxins can spread.

Although buckyballs are not now in the environment, a Japanese firm is building a plant to mass produce them for electronic applications.

Buckytubes are tiny concentric tubes of carbon, similar to rolled up sheets of graphite or elongated buckyballs.

Lately buckyballs have turned out to be not just a quirk found in space but a practical tool for nanotechnology, useful for strengthening materials, for improving solar cells and even for pharmaceuticals.

«This molecule is now all over the galaxy and all over the universe,» noted the late buckyball co-discoverer Harold Kroto, then a chemistry professor at Florida State University.

Encouraged that she had found a new way to trace impact events, she joined with geochemist Robert Poreda of the University of Rochester in New York, who had helped develop the technique to find trapped fullerene gases, to look for buckyballs at the sites of mass extinctions.

«What was in these little buckyballs was an extraterrestrial signature.»

Microfluidics researchers packing drug - bearing bubbles into slim capillaries, materials scientists packing buckyballs to create multiwalled nanotubes, and manufacturers searching for more efficient shipping options for balls, globes, candy, or virtually anything at all spherical could all use templates for packing.

The advance could help engineers pack all sorts of spheres more efficiently, from nano - sized buckyballs to Christmas tree ornaments.

Now they have used the same technique to image buckyballs, cage - like molecules made of 60 carbon atoms each.

IT»S blamed for obliterating the dinosaurs, but that famous asteroid or comet impact did more — it sprinkled buckyballs containing extraterrestrial gases all over the Earth.

Most important of all, they are stable in air — unlike buckyballs, which are attacked by oxygen and quickly decompose.

To do so they turned to a technique similar to that used for making buckyballs (C60).

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.

In 1993, a team led by John Maier of the University of Basel in Switzerland found that buckyballs encased in a frozen solid absorbed the right colors.

They chilled buckyballs to nearly absolute zero and put them in a vacuum, mimicking the conditions of the cosmos.

The lab produced a brown, spongy material in which hydrophobic (water - avoiding) buckyballs forced the hydrophilic (water - seeking) amines to the outside, where passing carbon dioxide could bind to the exposed nitrogen.

Markus Arndt and his colleagues at the University of Vienna sent buckyballs through a diffraction grating.

Leigh's colleagues, Frances Wade and Andrew Moody, suspected that if buckyballs were trapped in the one - dimensional channels of a zeolite, they might change their properties just like porous silicon.

In the new work, the chemists cooled gaseous buckyballs in the laboratory to frigid interstellar temperatures and measured the spectrum of the gas, finding lines at wavelengths of 9577 and 9632 angstroms.

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

Her early work on compounds made up of different chemical species sandwiched between graphite layers, known as graphite intercalation compounds, and carbon fibres, laid the groundwork for later discoveries concerning the famous C60 buckyball, carbon nanotubes and graphene.