Search results for buckyballs
Calling familiar assumptions into question results in better materials design
(Phys.org) -- Carbon and fluorine are at the heart of a family of chemical compounds that can be used for nonstick coatings, blood substitutes, and seemingly everything in between.
May 23, 2012 |
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Two-dimensional boron has potential advantages over graphene
(Phys.org) -- When is nothing really something? When it leads to a revelation about boron, an element with worlds of unexplored potential.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 23, 2012 |
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'Buckliball' opens new avenue in design of foldable engineering structures (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Motivated by the desire to determine the simplest 3-D structure that could take advantage of mechanical instability to collapse reversibly, a group of engineers at MIT and Harvard University ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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NIST measurements may help optimize organic solar cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic solar cells may be a step closer to market because of measurements taken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), ...
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Spitzer finds solid buckyballs in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres ...
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Buckyballs... throwing astronomers a curve
When I first heard about buckyballs a couple of decades ago, I had nothing but the deepest respect for anyone who understood abstract ideas like string theory and branes. After all, how often were you likely ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Space buckyballs thrive, finds NASA Spitzer Telescope
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have discovered bucket loads of buckyballs in space. They used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to find the little carbon spheres throughout our Milky Way galaxy -- in the space ...
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First Time
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time.
Jul 22, 2010 |
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For the first time, researchers observe graphene sheets becoming buckyballs (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Peering through a transmission electron microscope (TEM), researchers from Germany, Spain, and the UK have observed graphene sheets transforming into spherical fullerenes, better known as ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 11, 2010 |
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Nanophysics: Serving up Buckyballs on a silver platter
Scientists at Penn State University, in collaboration with institutes in the US, Finland, Germany and the UK, have figured out the long-sought structure of a layer of C60 - carbon buckyballs - on a silver ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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'Buckyballs' to treat multiple sclerosis
If you're of a certain age, you'll remember Buckminster Fuller's distinctive "geodesic domes" - soccer-ball-shaped structures that the late futurist envisioned as ideal human domiciles. Tel Aviv University ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Buckyballs could keep water systems flowing
Microscopic particles of carbon known as buckyballs may be able to keep the nation's water pipes clear in the same way clot-busting drugs prevent arteries from clogging up.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 05, 2009 |
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C60 SIMS FTICR MS raises bar for mass accuracy, resolving power
In biology, what molecules are located where dictates much about how any biological system functions.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Molecular depth profiling modeled using buckyballs and low-energy argon
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists led by a Penn State University chemist has demonstrated the strengths and weaknesses of an alternative method of molecular depth profiling -- a technique used to analyze ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Molecules are motifs in nanosymphony
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University composer Anthony Brandt has compressed an entire evening at the symphony into a six-minute opus -- a "nanosymphony" -- as part of Rice University's Year of Nano celebration. The River Oaks ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 05, 2010 |
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