Cages of carbon. (trapping atoms within buckyballs)

From: Discover | Date: September 1, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

There is a lot of hollow space inside the carbon latticework known as a buckyball--space that can be used to trap an atom or two.

TO SOME CHEMISTS, buckyballs are the best thing since the Bunsen burner. The soccer ball-shaped molecules, which are built of 60 or more carbon atoms, have been the focus of intense research ever since their discovery eight years ago. Now chemists have found ways to use buckyballs and other fullerenes (named for their striking resemblance to Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes) as molecular cages to trap atoms.

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