Sentences with phrase «trapped buckyballs»

However, this did not happen, so confirming that trapped buckyballs were stabilising the VPI - 5 structure by keeping the pores open.

Leigh enlisted the help of another colleague, zeolite researcher Mike Anderson, who suggested using a related material, known as VPI - 5, to trap buckyballs.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Trapped in the channels of a porous mineral and exposed to blue laser light, buckyballs — those ubiquitous all - carbon footballs — can now be made to glow with nearly all the colours of the rainbow.

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.

The researchers know these particular Buckyballs are extraterrestrial because the noble gases trapped inside have an unusual ratio of isotopes, atoms whose nuclei have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.