Sentences with phrase «shaped buckyballs»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.