BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE

bŭkˌmĭnstərfoolˈərēnˌ, –foolˌərēnˈ or buckyball, C60, hollow cage carbon molecule named for R. Buckminster Fuller because of the resemblance of its molecular structure to his geodesic domes. Although buckminsterfullerene (C60) was originally detected in soot in 1985, isolation was first reported in 1990. The soccerball-like molecules are prepared in helium by passing about 150 amps through a carbon rod and extracting the soot with benzene; the resulting magenta solution contains C60 and C70. See fullerene.

See J. Baggot, Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene (1996); H. Aldersey-Williams, The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball (1997).

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books on: Buckminsterfullerene  - 24 results

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Technology Transfer for Entrepreneurs: A Guide to Commercializing Federal Laboratory Innovations
Book by Clifford M. Gross, Joseph P. Allen; Praeger, 2003
Subjects: Commercial Products--United States, Entrepreneurship--United States, Laboratories--United States, Technological Innovations--Economic Aspects--United States, Technology And State--Economic Aspects--United States, Technology Transfer--Economic Aspects--United States
Figure 11.1 I C? Buckminsterfullerene This third form of carbon...diamonds, is known as buckminsterfullerene or buckyballs for short...Nanotechnologies to produce buckminsterfullerene. Carbon Nanotechnologies...
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The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-2000
Book by Louise S. Sherby; Oryx Press, 2002
Subjects: Biography--20th Century--Dictionaries, Nobel Prizes
...they named the carbon structure buckminsterfullerene, or buckyball, after him. The...November 25, 1988 : 1139 45. C60: Buckminsterfullerene, the Celestial Sphere That Fell...a geodesic dome, thus the name buckminsterfullerene or buckyball. The other forms...
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Molecules
Book by Philip Ball; Oxford University Press, 2003
...first fullerene, a sixty-atom cage called buckminsterfullerene, was discovered in 1985. Its curious name...made from hexagonal and pentagonal facets. Buckminsterfullerene, or C 60 , has this same structure at the molecular...
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Who Gives a Gigabyte? A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed
Book by Gary Stix, Miriam Lacob; John Wiley & Sons, 1999
Subjects: Technological Innovations, Technological Literacy
...materials sci- entists are so fascinated by buckminsterfullerene, or C60, a molecule that consists of sixty...configuration. Since the 1985 discovery of buckminsterfullerene, many other related molecules have been discovered...
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A Century of Nobel Prizes Recipients: Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine
Book by Francis Leroy; Marcel Dekker, 2003
Subjects: Scientists--Biography
...attempts to rationalise their abundance that C60 Buckminsterfullerene was discovered. Laboratory experiments at Rice...the discovery and characterization of C60, Buckminsterfullerene, a soccerball - shaped molecule which, together...
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journal articles on: Buckminsterfullerene  - 4 results

 
 
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Patenting Nanotechnology
Journal article by Mark A. Lemley; Stanford Law Review, Vol. 58, 2005
Subjects: Bayh-Dole Act, Nanotechnology--Intellectual property, Patent infringement--Laws, regulations and rules
...nanotechnology that are unpatented, notably buckminsterfullerene. (63) It is too early to tell...filed Aug. 14, 1998). (63.) Buckminsterfullerene, or carbon-60, which was discovered...see H.W. Kroto et al., C60: Buckminsterfullerene, 318 NATURE 162 (1985), is...
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Attributing Effects of Aqueous [C.Sub.60
Journal article by Theodore B. Henry, Fu-Min Menn, James T. Fleming, John Wilgus, Robert N. Compton, Gary S. Sayler; Vol. 115, 2007
Subjects: DNA microarrays--Research, Tetrahydrofuran--Research, Toxicogenomics--Research, Zebra fish--Genetic aspects, Zebra fish--Research, Zebra fishes--Genetic aspects, Zebra fishes--Research
...future (Colvin 2003). Fullerenes (i.e., Buckminsterfullerene, or "Bucky balls") are nanomaterials that...Obrien SC, Curl RF, Smalley RE. 1985. Buckminsterfullerene. Nature 318:162-163. Lovern SB, Klaper...
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A Century of Nature: Twenty-one Discoveries That Changed Science and the World
Journal article by David Edgerton; Medical History, Vol. 49, 2005
...It covers neither a century, nor necessarily discoveries that have changed the world (Dolly the Sheep? Buckminsterfullerene?). Many of the papers are remarkably short, especially in the earlier part of the century, and indeed the...
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A Guide for the Safe Handling of Engineered and Fabricated Nanomaterials
Journal article by Wanda L. Greaves-Holmes; Journal of Technology Studies, Vol. 35, 2009
...appreciably reduced. Scientists suggests that synthetic carbon molecules (Carbon 60 molecules also known as buckminsterfullerene, fullerene or buckyballs) have a high potential of being accumulated in animal tissue, but the molecules appear...


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magazine articles on: Buckminsterfullerene  - 21 results

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Researchers Think Small
Magazine article by Kenneth Silber; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, April 1, 1996
Subjects: Buckminsterfullerene--Research, Nanotechnology--Research, Semiconductor chips--Innovations
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BUCKYBOWLS by the Bucketful
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 129, June 2001
Subjects: Buckminsterfullerene--Research, Carbon allotropes--Research, Chemists--Research, Rabideau, Peter--Research, United States. Department of Energy--Officials and employees
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Allergy Nanomedicine: Buckyballs Dampen Response of Cells That Trigger Allergic Reactions
Magazine article by A. Goho; Science News, Vol. 172, July 7, 2007
Subjects: Allergic reaction--Care and treatment, Allergy--Care and treatment, Antioxidants (Nutrients)--Research, Antioxidants--Research, Buckminsterfullerene--Health aspects
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Molecular Marvels
Magazine article; Popular Science, Vol. 242, May 1993
Subjects: Drexler, Eric, Drexler, K Eric, Molecules, Nanotechnology, Research, Technology
...and more important than the carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene. Its going to be everywhere." Merkle, however...soccerball-shaped carbon molecule known as buckminsterfullerene. "Perhaps in several decades well learn how...
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"A National Trust for Intellectual Property" Is Being Launched by Labour. It Won't Do Much for the Arts, but the Tea Towels Should Be Good
Magazine article by Hugh Aldersey-Williams; New Statesman, Vol. 127, January 9, 1998
Subjects: Intellectual property--United Kingdom, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts--Finance, Research grants--United Kingdom, Technology and the arts--Finance
...which, with a delirious flourish, he named buckminsterfullerene after the cult American architect whose geodesic...require lots more work; some never make it. Buckminsterfullerene, discovered serendipitously in 1985, still...
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Bucky Ball Delight Comes Unstuck
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 29, 1998
...Sir Harry Kroto, fullerenes have a huge range of potential uses. Most exciting is a new form of carbon - the buckminsterfullerene, or "the bucky ball". These molecules, which are made of 60 atoms of carbon - the same substance as graphite...
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A Few Big Ideas from beyond the Beltway
Newspaper article by Wesley Pruden; The Washington Times, July 8, 1997
...Texas, and nominated, but took no final action on, the Devils Cigar Fungus as the official State Fungus; buckminsterfullerene as the Official State Molecule, and the Brachiosaur Sauropod Pleurocoelus as the official State Dinosaur. Not...
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Future Planes, More May Be Made of 'Buckypaper'
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 19, 2008
Subjects: News agencies, The Associated Press
...promoted by Buckminster Fuller, an architect, inventor and futurist. That inspired Kroto to name the new molecule buckminsterfullerene, or "buckyballs" for short. For their discovery of the buckyball the third form of pure carbon to be discovered...


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encyclopedia articles on: Buckminsterfullerene  - 4 results

 
 
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Buckminsterfullerene
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE buk minst rfool ren , fool...his geodesic domes. Although buckminsterfullerene (C 60 ) was originally detected...The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene (1996); H. Aldersey-Williams...
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Fullerene
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...been found. The most common and most stable fullerene is buckminsterfullerene , a spheroidal molecule, resembling a soccer ball, consisting of 60 carbon atoms. Buckminsterfullerene is the most abundant cluster of carbon atoms found in carbon...
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Buckyball
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BUCKYBALL colloquial term for buckminsterfullerene , a roughly spherical fullerene molecule consisting of 60 carbon atoms. Buckytube is a generic term for cylindrical fullerenes...
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Carbon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...12 pentagonal faces and any number greater than 1 of hexagonal faces. The most prominent of the fullerenes is buckminsterfullerene , a spheroidal molecule, resembling a soccer ball, consisting of 60 carbon atoms. A fifth form, "white...


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