Research allows manufacture of nanoscale 'footballs' with boron.(Composites)

New Materials Asia | January 1, 2009 | Copyright

The surface of a football is composed of hexagons and pentagons: the hexagons lie side by side while any pentagon is surrounded by five hexagons. How many corners and edges are there? Footballers do not have to know that as long as they can pass and shoot; but an architect or structural physicist could readily give the answer.

For decades, scientists have tried to build molecular structures as symmetric, stable and useful as the football's spheric frame. A rapid communication published online in the November 2008 issue of Physical Review B reported a possible recipe ...

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