Scientists observed unique ergodicity-breaking behaviors in the C60 molecule’s rotations without breaking symmetry using advanced infrared spectroscopy. This discovery offers new insights into quantum system…
Russian scientists have synthesized a new ultra-hard material containing scandium and carbon. It consists of polymerized fullerene molecules with scandium and carbon atoms inside. The…
It is the hardest known glass with the highest thermal conductivity among all glass materials. Carnegie’s Yingwei Fei and Lin Wang were part of an…
Organic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have been around for over forty years. The most widely used form is based on thiols, bound to a metal surface….
JILA researchers have measured hundreds of individual quantum energy levels in the buckyball, a spherical cage of 60 carbon atoms. It’s the largest molecule that…
Fullerenes were first discovered by Harry Kroto in the 1970s, a feat for which he and his colleagues Robert Curl and Richard Smalley received a…
Borrowing design ideas from a toy, scientists at MIT and Harvard have developed a new type of engineered capsule, dubbed “buckliball.” This one-piece silicone sphere…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered buckyballs in a solid form around a pair of stars called “XX Ophiuchi,” 6,500 light-years from…