Astronomers at the University of Arizona have developed a theory to explain the presence of the largest molecules known to exist in interstellar gas.
Astronomy
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Bio & Medicine
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Microscopically small cages have been produced at TU Wien (Vienna) with grid openings only a few micrometers in size, making them ideal for holding cells and allowing living tissue to grow in a very specific shape. This new ...
Biotechnology
May 4, 2020
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A decade ago, scientists noticed something very strange happening when buckyballs—soccer ball shaped carbon molecules—were dumped onto a certain type of multilayer graphene, a flat carbon nanomaterial. Rather than rolling ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 31, 2019
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Circuits have become smaller, letting computers fit in the palm of your hand, but what if circuits could be as small as molecules? To create such circuits, scientists need molecular diodes that let current travel in one direction, ...
Nanophysics
Aug 5, 2016
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A Dartmouth College scientist and his collaborators have created an artificial protein that organizes new materials at the nanoscale.
Nanomaterials
Apr 26, 2016
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Treated buckyballs not only remove valuable but potentially toxic metal particles from water and other liquids, but also reserve them for future use, according to scientists at Rice University.
Nanomaterials
Feb 9, 2015
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(Phys.org)—Rice University scientists have discovered an environmentally friendly carbon-capture method that could be equally adept at drawing carbon dioxide emissions from industrial flue gases and natural gas wells.
Nanomaterials
Dec 3, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Rice University scientists have found they can control the bonds between atoms in a molecule.
Nanophysics
Jan 16, 2014
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Researchers at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have reported the first experimental evidence that supports the theory that a soccer ball-shaped nanoparticle commonly called a buckyball is the result of a breakdown ...
Materials Science
Sep 15, 2013
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Buckminsterfullerene is a spherical fullerene molecule with the formula C60. It was first intentionally prepared in 1985 by Harold Kroto, James Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University. Kroto, Curl, and Smalley were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their roles in the discovery of buckminsterfullerene and the related class of molecules, the fullerenes. The name is a homage to Richard Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic domes it resembles. Buckminsterfullerene was the first fullerene molecule discovered and it is also the most common in terms of natural occurrence, as it can be found in small quantities in soot.
Buckminsterfullerene is the largest matter to have been shown to exhibit wave–particle duality.
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