Sentences with phrase «charged buckyballs»

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To make DNA visible, a team at the University of South Carolina, Columbia — including chemists James Tour, Alan Cassell, and Walter Scrivens — attached positively charged ammonium groups to the neutral buckyballs, then mixed the buckyballs with rings and strands of DNA.

Almost a decade later astronomers saw spectral features in interstellar gas that looked consistent with positively charged versions of buckyballs, and the connection was confirmed in 2015 when researchers matched those features to the spectrum of buckyballs created under spacelike conditions in the lab.

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.

The nanosheets, which are made of the molecular charge - transfer compound DBTTF and buckyball molecules, can expand up to 5.7 percent of its original size.