Sentences with phrase «carbon buckyballs»

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

Kei Kurotobi and Yasujiro Murata of Kyoto University in Japan made a pore in a carbon buckyball.

Not exact matches

A «buckyball» is a three dimensional carbon atom ball — named after the geodesic domes created by Buckminster Fuller and are constructed with a combination of hexagons and pentagons.

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

Buckyballs, made of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a geodesic sphere — the shape made famous by the inventor — have been found beyond our galaxy, suggesting they abound in space.

Buckyballs have led to the development of carbon nanotubes, used in many contemporary developments in nanotechnology.

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.

Nerve cells threatened by stroke or degenerative diseases may have a surprising new ally — microscopic spheres of carbon called buckyballs.

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

Toxicologists reported that buckyballs, a spherical form of carbon, can cause brain damage in fish — the first indication that nanomaterials could pose a threat to aquatic life.

The buckyball, a 60 - carbon molecule shaped like a soccer ball, made its debut 13 years ago today in the pages of Nature.

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

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.

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.

When exposed to sheets of carbon - atom cages called buckyballs, copper and manganese become permanent magnets, researchers report in the Aug. 6 Nature.

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.

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.

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

Then in 1991, while studying the unique atomic structures called buckyballs, which are created by electrically charging carbon soot, Sumio Iijima of Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan, discovered the first nanotubes — fantastically strong cylindrical carbon - atom constructions less than two nanometers wide and of varying lengths.

Buckyballs, carbon compounds shaped like soccer balls, can survive between stars and absorb their light, astronomers announced, helping solve a nearly century - old mystery.

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

The ultimate curvature of buckyballs may make them the best possible way to bind amine molecules that capture carbon dioxide but allow desirable methane to pass through.

«Buckyballs enhance carbon capture.»

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.

Trapped in the channels of a porous mineral and exposed to blue laser light, buckyballs — those ubiquitous all - carbon footballs — can now be made to glow with nearly all the colours of the rainbow.

BUCKYBALLS — molecules made up of 60 carbon atoms — can behave like waves, blurring the boundary between the everyday world and the realm of quantum mechanics.

That matches what the astronomers saw and, because our solar system arose from interstellar material, suggests that some of the carbon now in our bodies was once in the form of buckyballs.

Each compound has a different carbon - fluorine group attached to a buckyball — a special arrangement of carbon atoms shaped like a soccer ball.

In August 2005, the scientists reported that they created this compound by compressing buckyballs — soccer ball - shaped molecules each made of 60 carbon atoms — at 2,200 degrees C and 200 times normal atmospheric pressure, a process that could lend itself to mass production.

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

Imagine the sorts of things that can be made once it becomes possible to produce buckyballs and carbon nanotubes on an industrial scale.