Fullerenes and nanotubes are back in the news
Shaped carbon molecules are known officially as fullerenes and unofficially as ''buckyballs''. The news blurbs about Carbon-50, self-assemble nanotubes and fullerene transistors are circulating around the Net. But is this all still about a technology ''not for another few years yet'' or ''we are definitely getting closer''?
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Fullerenes and nanotubes are back in the news (2004, May 12)
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