A 13-year-old boy in Yangzhou, China, had to undergo emergency surgery to remove over 20 magnetic balls he inserted into his ...

Magnetic balls danger 01:37 You may have Buckyballs or other super-strong magnets in your house and not realize the dangers. Besides Buckyballs other brands include Zen Magnets, Magnet Balls and ...

Classification of polymer- and non-polymer-based nanocomposites. (© IntechOpen) The exponential growth of polymeric nanocomposites began with the discovery of fullerenes (also known as C60 or ...

The authors found that the through-holes of these hollow buckyballs play an important role in reducing the reflection of light. This is the first biological example showing short wavelength ...

The structure could be scaled up to create larger buckyballs to hold more hydrogen. Researchers at Rice University are studying a new way of potentially storing hydrogen within tiny carbon nano ...

Research has shown that nanoparticles accumulate in the nasal cavities, lungs and brains of rats, and that carbon nanomaterials known as 'buckyballs' induce brain damage in fish. Vyvyan Howard, a ...

Question 3: What is a buckyball? You didn't select an answer. The answer is: A carbon molecule (C60). Buckyballs are also called Fullerenes. Discovered in 1985, they are a family of carbon allotropes ...

Pure carbon is found in nature in several different forms, or allotropes, including graphene, diamond, nanotubes, and fullerenes or "buckyballs." Each form has attributes that make it excel at ...

If you are a teacher in a state school in the Sheffield City Region and would like to be able to have a go at building ‘Buckyballs’ in your classroom, you can use our fantastic Buckyball Science ...

He’s always considered Hope his true home, where he “became grounded.” In 1996, Smalley won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for finding and developing the third allotropic form of carbon: buckyballs. “I ...

The radio telescope that discovered the Big Bang has survived a real estate battle — for now. By Dennis Overbye A half-century ago, a radio telescope in Holmdel, N.J., sent two astronomers 13.8 ...