Sentences with phrase «of buckyballs»

: A group of researchers set out to study the toxicity and other effects of buckyballs and came up with a surprising find — the diet of buckyball - infused olive oil doubled the lifespan of the lab rats.

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.

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.

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.

Oscar Céspedes, a condensed matter physicist at the University of Leeds in England, and colleagues tried to remedy that by stacking metal films and sheets of buckyballs, which tend to steal

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.

Previous studies have shown that crystals of buckyballs — carbon spheres officially known as fullerenes — can superconduct at temperatures as high as 52 kelvin.

To get a more realistic read, he and his co-workers treated soil from a cornfield run by the university with either a solution of buckyballs, yielding a dose of one part per million in the soil, or with dry buckyballs for a concentration of a thousand parts per million.

Jacking up the current to five times the normal amperage one day, postdoc A. V. Palnichenko found that instead of some kin of buckyballs or nanotubes, a diamond grit consisting of hundreds of 10 - micrometer - wide diamonds and a smattering of larger, 100 - micrometer - wide ones had landed on the metal surface below, they report in the 11 November Nature.

Whereas buckyballs are spherical in shape, a nanotube is cylindrical, with at least one end typically capped with a hemisphere of the buckyball structure.

Curl's depiction of the buckyball's creation hints at a dispute over the naming of the molecule.

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

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.

Actually I was questioning buckyball's whole bit about the whole concept of hell as being only derived from the Hellenistic concept... DUH...

Actually I was questioning buckyball's whole bit about the whole concept of hell as being only derived from the Hellenistic concept.

BUCKYBALLS have been a source of fascination ever since they were made in the lab in 1985.

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

A study published in tomorrow's Proceedings of the American Academy of Sciences describes how modified buckyballs — which soak up nerve - destroying chemicals — delay the onset of symptoms in mice suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.

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.

Instead, Dugan used buckyballs modified with six pairs of water soluble carboxylic acid molecules.

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

They first isolated a buckyball on a metal surface with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), which images the atomic contours of a surface by measuring changes in the electrical current that travels between the surface and an ultrasharp tip that scans across it.

Prior tests found that high concentrations of the soccer ball — shaped buckyballs can kill pure strains of bacteria growing in the lab.

Dugan also pumped the buckyballs into the stomach cavity of mice bred to mimic Lou Gehrig's disease.

Tour and his colleagues are currently testing the ability of the modified buckyballs to enhance images of synthetic cube - and star - shaped DNA.

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.

Indeed, the buckyballs were arranged in the telltale rings and zigzags of DNA.

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.

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

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

Perhaps the species we are familiar with on Earth are in fact the exotic ones, and the buckyballs, the Horsehead Nebula, C3H + and others still unknown are the ordinary stuff of the universe.

Neal Pellis, associate director of the Biological Sciences and Applications Office at the Johnson Space Center, suggests that buckyballs and other nanomolecules may have free radical — scavenging possibilities.

Encouraged that she had found a new way to trace impact events, she joined with geochemist Robert Poreda of the University of Rochester in New York, who had helped develop the technique to find trapped fullerene gases, to look for buckyballs at the sites of mass extinctions.

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.

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

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.

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

When the XFEL intensity was cranked up past a critical point, the electrons in the Buckyballs spontaneously re-arranged their positions, changing the shape of the molecules completely.

The team exposed a sample of crystals, known as Buckminsterfullerene or Buckyballs, to intense light emitted from the world's first hard X-ray free electron laser (XFEL), based at Stanford University in the United States.

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.

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.

Despite this, they were able to identify the structure of the most stable cluster, Ti8C12, as a cage of 20 atoms resembling a miniature buckyball.

In an exciting extension of this work — proposed by Roger Penrose, the renowned Oxford physicist — not just light but a small mirror that reflects it becomes part of an entangled quantum system, one that is billions of times larger than a buckyball.

At the University of Vienna, Anton Zeilinger's work with huge molecules called buckyballs pushes quantum reality closer to the macroscopic world.

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