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Technology Research News June 2, 2004 |
Buckyballs Gain Smaller Kin Researchers from Xiamen University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have constructed a smaller version of the buckyball or C60 fullerene molecule, a spherical cage of carbon atoms.  |
Chemistry World February 21, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Fullerenes break the rules Chinese researchers have made an exotic new family of fullerenes that contain three pentagons fused sequentially in their structure.  |
Chemistry World May 30, 2012 Jon Cartwright |
Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization.  |
Chemistry World December 18, 2012 Caryl Richards |
Boron vapor trail leads to heterofullerenes A team of scientists has developed a simple way to synthesize heterofullerenes -- fullerenes with atoms other than carbon in their structure -- by exposing fullerene to boron vapor during their growth.  |
Chemistry World May 28, 2012 Hayley Birch |
Buckyballs grow by gobbling up carbon New insights into the formation of some of chemistry's most iconic molecules - the fullerenes - suggest they grow by 'eating' carbon atoms.  |
Chemistry World December 6, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Chemists Make Fullerene Necklace Spanish scientists have strung fullerene buckyballs together to produce a polymer with unique electronic properties. The creation of these polymers has demonstrated a new approach to designing novel materials.  |
Chemistry World May 9, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Filming fullerene formation Real-time, atomic level microscopy has revealed that the round, cage-like structures of fullerenes can form directly from sheets containing large numbers of carbon atoms.  |
Chemistry World August 13, 2008 Fred Campbell |
Buckyball synthesis under control Researchers in Spain have developed a highly efficient, surface-catalysed route to fullerenes.  |
Chemistry World July 14, 2014 Tim Wogan |
First experimental evidence of a boron fullerene The first experimental evidence for a boron fullerene has been produced by researchers in the US and China.  |
Chemistry World December 7, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Metal atoms in carbon nanotubes caught on film An international team of researchers has filmed individual metal atoms as they move around and react within the confines of a carbon nanotube.  |
Chemistry World November 21, 2013 Emily James |
Bucky-built MOFs Buckyballs can be used to build up a novel two-dimensional metal -- organic framework.  |
Chemistry World January 30, 2014 Jessica Cocker |
Crystal structure highlights buckycatcher's flexibility Chemists in the US have successfully isolated the first anion of a distinctive type of pincer molecule, known as a buckycatcher, and confirmed the extraordinary flexibility it has for encapsulating guest molecules.  |
Chemistry World July 3, 2014 Tami Spector |
Of atoms and aesthetics Molecular aesthetics means many things to a few people. For some it means tangible aspects of compounds; for others yet, the ways that chemists represent molecules.  |
Chemistry World October 16, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Helium happily shares electrons to create dianions Helium invariably sits with its arms tightly folded and refuses to participate in chemistry, but turns out to be surprisingly generous when it is in the right environment, willing to donate not just one but two electrons to neighboring species.  |
Chemistry World July 7, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Football-sized fullerene gets an electric response A football-sized resonator that can simulate the properties of a carbon fullerene has been created by scientists in Germany.  |
Chemistry World February 26, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Nanotubes Sprout Fullerene Buds A new carbon-based hybrid material is set to make an impact on the microelectronics industry. Christened 'nanobuds', the material consists of single-walled carbon nanotubes with football-shaped fullerenes stuck on their outer surfaces.  |
Chemistry World December 21, 2010 Laura Howes |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2010 With the help of an expert panel of journal editors, Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in the year's chemical science papers.  |
Chemistry World July 22, 2010 Andy Extance |
Buckyballs give clue to space mystery The C60 molecule Buckminsterfullerene has been clearly identified in space for the first time, providing a possible solution to a 90-year old extraterrestrial enigma.  |
Chemistry World August 17, 2012 |
Crystals through the looking glass Crystalline, amorphous and, recently, quasicrystalline -- those are the phases of solid matter we all know. But US based scientists have now added another to that list.  |
Chemistry World October 15, 2015 Victoria Richards |
C 50 breaks all the rules European scientists have found that the rules of aromaticity need to be rewritten if they are to ever discover a superaromatic fullerene.  |
Science News September 16, 2000 Ivars Peterson |
Plato's Molecule The Pythagoreans believed that the dodecahedron formed the "timbers" on which the spherical bulk of the heavens was built. This Platonic solid has been an object of fascination for millennia. Now, the dodecahedron is in the news again...  |
Chemistry World July 7, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Buckyball boron Systematic structure-searching calculations performed by scientists in China have put forward an all-boron analogue of fullerene: B 38.  |
Chemistry World November 2010 |
Carbyne and other myths about carbon Harry Kroto gets hot under the collar on the subject of so-called carbyne  |