buckminsterfullerene

How To Use buckminsterfullerene In A Sentence

• Obviously, if collapse to a fullerene occurs before the cluster has accumulated 60 atoms, buckminsterfullerene can not be produced.
• When 12 of buckminsterfullerene's 60 carbons are replaced by nitrogens, it can link up with other ‘buckyballs ‘to form a strong and springy material.’
• The first fullerene, a sixty-atom cage called buckminsterfullerene, was discovered in 1985.
• In the other two mechanisms, buckminsterfullerene is formed by a combination of specific precursor carbon clusters.
• They dubbed it buckminsterfullerene -- or "bucky ball" to its fans. Keep Your Eye On The 'Bucky Balls'
• Lockheed Martin is sponsoring the Year of the Nano, Rice's celebration of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the buckminsterfullerene molecule -- the "buckyball" -- that enables nanotechnology. Nano Tech Wire
• Buckminsterfullerene is a very stable molecule made of pure carbon.
• Nanomaterials including buckminsterfullerene have toxicity issues, but on the other hand, they have all kinds of environmental and biomedical uses. MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research
• The most famous is buckminsterfullerene, discovered in 1985, which is made up of 60 carbon atoms arranged in 12 pentagonal rings and 20 hexagonal rings.
• This is how I think about the fact that buckminsterfullerene, C 60, reached macroscopic stability - in the special reaction conditions of a carbon arc in a helium atmosphere.