Could buckyballs be holding new quantum mysteries, which unlock their potential for quantum information science? That’s what theoretical physicist Timur Tscherbul from the University of Nevada, Reno ...

Backed by a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers led by Princeton’s Marissa Weichman will help identify new buckyball-like molecules, formed in space, which “drive the ...

Read their full analysis of the bug-made buckyballs in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312700121 Do science. Take pictures. Win money. Enter our photo contest here.

Physics & Chemistry Chemists Used Buckyballs to Squeeze a Noble Gas Into One Dimension An experiment compressed krypton atoms so tightly that they formed a 1-D strand.

Rice University chemists discovered that 32-atom gold fullerene molecules are one and the same as “seed” particles scientists have long used to synthesize myriad shapes and sizes of gold nanoparticles ...

Chemists have discovered that tiny gold 'seed' particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spheres that are cousins ...

Gold buckyballs, oft-used nanoparticle ‘seeds’ are one and the same Rice lab discovers commonly used nanoparticles are cousins of original buckyballs Peer-Reviewed Publication Rice University ...

As is so often the case with great scientific discoveries, Rick Smalley, Bob Curl and Harry Kroto weren't looking for buckyballs when they found them in 1985. Smalley had built a fancy machine at ...

The chemistry world has been excited about the possibility of buckyballs, graphene and carbon nanotubes for decades. But the science has taken a long time to catch up to the hype. So where are we now, ...

In 1996, Kroto, Smalley, and Curl were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. All three men have passed away—Robert Curl died on July 3—but the story of buckminsterfullerene has barely begun.

Robert F. Curl Jr., who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry as one of the discoverers of remarkably simple but completely unexpected carbon molecules known as buckyballs, died on July 3 at a ...

Robert Curl, Nobel-winning chemist in ‘buckyball’ discovery, dies at 88 His work helped open new frontiers in physical chemistry and nanotechnology July 6, 2022 More than 2 years ago 5 min ...