Sentences with phrase «buckyballs into»

Dugan also pumped the buckyballs into the stomach cavity of mice bred to mimic Lou Gehrig's disease.

Not exact matches

But Vicki Colvin, a chemist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, found that buckyballs can cluster into tiny, soluble crystals that aquatic organisms could absorb.

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.

Using mass spectrometry they have shown that, unlike the football - shaped buckyballs, metcars combine into clusters of up to four interlocked balls that share common faces.

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.

Every previous attempt to protonate buckyballs had destroyed the molecules, but the carborane acid succeeded, turning the magenta buckyball powder into a red salt the color of Bordeaux, the team reports in the 7 July issue of Science.

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

The rear wheels of the nanodragster are buckyballs, each made up of a web of 60 carbon atoms that arrange themselves into a sphere.