Sentences with phrase «like buckyballs»

Not exact matches

Imagine taking a fullerene (C60, also known as a buckyball) and cutting it in half like a melon (also known as a buckybowl).

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

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

Until the molecules can be extracted and grown as pure crystals, their buckyball - like structure can not be confirmed by X-ray analysis.

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

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.

Leigh's colleagues, Frances Wade and Andrew Moody, suspected that if buckyballs were trapped in the one - dimensional channels of a zeolite, they might change their properties just like porous silicon.

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.

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

His cells may curve, like fragments of a buckyball, or bounce around in the picture plane.