What is "buckyballs"

Usage examples of "buckyballs".

A heap of crystallized buckyballs stack very much like pool balls, and are as soft as graphite.

It's thought that buckyballs will make good lubricants -- something like molecular ball bearings.

Just *how* hard is not yet established, but according to chemical theory, compressed buckyballs may be considerably harder than diamond.

Because buckyballs are hollow, their carbon framework can be wrapped around other, entirely different atoms, forming neat molecular cages.

Then there are buckyballs with a carbon or two knocked out of the framework, and replaced with metal atoms.

Twisted or deformed buckyballs might act as optical switches for future fiber-optic networks.

There's already excited talk in industry of making electrical batteries out of buckyballs.

Molecular models of these monster buckyballs look like giant chickenwire beachballs.

If wrapped around one another for internal support, buckyballs can (at least theoretically) accrete like pearls.

The resultant exotic soot, which collects on the metal walls of the chamber, is up to 45 percent buckyballs.

It wasn't the intellectual breakthrough that made buckyballs a sport -- it was the cheap ticket in through the gates.

With cheap and easy buckyballs available, the research scene exploded.

Now that sustained attention has been brought to bear on the phenomenon, it appears that buckyballs are naturally present -- in tiny amounts, that is -- in almost any sooty, smoky flame.

When compressed, crystallized buckyballs squash and flatten readily, down to about seventy percent of their volume.

A thin film of buckyballs can double the frequency of laser light passing through it.