Sentences with phrase «buckyballs for»

There are quantum dots for fluorescence and color, and buckyballs for electrical conductivity.

To get a more realistic read, he and his co-workers treated soil from a cornfield run by the university with either a solution of buckyballs, yielding a dose of one part per million in the soil, or with dry buckyballs for a concentration of a thousand parts per million.

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

Not exact matches

Abundant carbon and a lack of hydrogen in the area could provide perfect conditions for buckyballs.

The researchers don't expect to be able to use their buckyball amplifiers for practical applications anytime soon.

The European researchers — Christophe Joachim of the CNRS Laboratory for the Study of Materials and Structures in Toulouse, France, and James Gimzewski of IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory — essentially trapped a spherical 60 - carbon fullerene, or buckyball, in a vise wired up to conduct electricity.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Fuller is best known for his design of geodesic domes, familiar to any visitor of Disney's Epcot Center and every student of chemistry, who will know his name for the buckminsterfullerene, or buckyball, a spherical arrangement of 60 carbon atoms that resemble Fuller's domes.

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.

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.

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

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Ever since Rice University researchers introduced a buckyball wheeled nanocar in 2005, teams have been racing to improve techniques for nanoassembly.