Although carbon has been subjected to far more study than all other elements put together, the buckminsterfullerene
hollow - cage
structure, recently proposed to account for the exceptional stability of the C60 cluster, has shed a totally
new and revealing light on several important aspects of carbon's chemical and physical properties that were quite unsuspected and others that were not previously well understood.
In addition to a carbon - fiber
structure, the
new car — previewed below by our illustrator — fends off weight with a honeycomb engine cradle, sandwich suspension links,
hollow - spoke wheels, and a thin - wall exhaust system.