New experiments carried out with huge molecules called
buckyballs show that quantum reality extends into the macroscopic world as well.
Not exact matches
The finding
shows that
buckyballs «act as an effective antioxidant,» sweeping up free radicals, says Jonathan Gitlin, a pediatric neurologist at Washington University.
Other experts caution that the new results don't definitively
show that
buckyballs are to blame.
Carbon nanotubes (one
shown above) and «
buckyball» clusters (dark spots) are incorporated in a new material to boost its electricity - generating properties.
Previous studies have
shown that crystals of
buckyballs — carbon spheres officially known as fullerenes — can superconduct at temperatures as high as 52 kelvin.
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.
Other experiments with huge molecules called «
Buckyballs» have also
showed that quantum reality extends beyond the microscopic world.