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UK
/fˈʊləɹˌiːn/
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NOUN
- a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms
How To Use fullerene In A Sentence
- Graphite is one of the four allotropic forms of carbon; the other three are amorphous carbon, diamond, and fullerene.
- This newly synthesized molecule is the smallest member of the family of closed-cage carbon molecules known as fullerenes.
- Obviously, if collapse to a fullerene occurs before the cluster has accumulated 60 atoms, buckminsterfullerene can not be produced.
- If you have a many-layered fullerene ball, structured like an onion, it approaches the density of graphite. Making Light: The tastemakers of tomorrow
- Discovered in 1991 by Japanese scientist Sumio Iijima, carbon nanotubes are cylindrical carbon molecules that are very similar in structure to a fullerene, or buckyball, but instead of being a sphere, the nanotube is tubular in shape.
- The familiar fullerene soccerball molecule could one day kick-start solar power.
- Professor Kubozono said picene is the first example of a hydrocarbon superconductor, although scientists have been able to create superconductors of the carbon compound fullerene (C60) doped with potassium. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- The early promise of the spherical all-carbon fullerenes, better known to non-chemists as buckyballs, have not yet lived up to their early hype.
- As a new member of fullerene, carbon nanotubes has exhibit perfect optical limiting property.
- At Houston's Rice University, where physicist Richard Smalley discovered the fullerene in 1985 (and in 1996 shared the Nobel Prize for his achievement), researchers have developed another platform for nanoscale drug delivery called the nanoshell. Tiny Weapons With Giant Potential