Sentence examples for hollow molecules from inspiring English sources

Nanotubes are fullerenes, hollow molecules built of carbon atoms -- like buckyballs, their soccer-ball-shaped chemical cousins.

Carbon nanotubes – incredibly strong, electrically conductive, hollow molecules of carbon about a nanometer in diameter – have for more than a decade been prized by materials scientists.

In its issue of Nov. 3, 1966, the British magazine New Scientist published a column by Dr. Jones titled "Hollow Molecules" that said: Daedalus "has conceived the hollow molecule".

Stupendous strides in chemical synthesis have given the world a wealth of new materials and drugs, and have created entirely new classes of molecules, including hollow molecules shaped like cages that contain even smaller molecules.

So much so that the Adidas ball, officially called the Telstar, was often referred to as simply the Buckminster (in much the same way that nanotechnology's hollow molecules composed of pentagon/hexagon lattices of carbon atoms became known as "fullerenes", and their spherical versions as "bucky balls").

The resulting hollow, cagelike molecules would have intriguing properties: You could entrap other atoms inside or exploit the roller-bearing properties of the molecules as a lubricant.

Dr. Jones regards Daedalus's crowning achievement as the prediction of buckminsterfullerene -- a chemical family of hollow carbon molecules.

Fullerene, also called buckminsterfullerene, any of a series of hollow carbon molecules that form either a closed cage ("buckyballs") or a cylinder (carbon "nanotubes").

By opening a chemical gate into a hollow carbon molecule, a team of chemists has discovered a simple way to make compounds that most scientists believed could not exist: compounds incorporating the elements helium and neon.

But chemists at Yale University and the University of Rochester say it turns out that hollow, carbon-based molecules called fullerenes have probably been devouring helium atoms ever since scientists learned to make them, and that the helium prisoners inside the molecules had simply never been discovered.

Helium has been put inside the hollow carbon cage molecules (the fullerenes) by heating under high pressure.