IBM Announces Nanotube Breakthrough
News Carbon nanotubes, cylindrical carbon molecules with structural similarities to buckyballs, have extraordinary properties; they conduct electricity better than metals, are stronger than steel, and can emit light.
[March 24, 2006, 10:30]
Flashy Balls Make For Mega-memory
Blog Back in reality-land, though, researchers at Cornell have proposed popping buckyballs - think graphene sheets formed into football-like spheres - into flash memory structures. The buckyballs create conditions where far less energy is needed to pop...
[April 22, 2008, 15:42]
IDF: Future Computers Take A New Form
News Exotic new materials are being developed to increase the efficiency by which the processor and other power-hungry components get rid of their heat: diamond films, carbon-60 buckyballs and phase-change alloys that melt into the surface of the...
[February 28, 2002, 9:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's carbon in the form of fullerenes -- otherwise known as buckminster fullerene, buckyballs, and other cute names beginning with nano -- where the atoms form into a geometric grid that can be flat, round, curly or what have you.
[September 18, 2001, 1:38]
Pencil + Sticky Tape = Desktop Supercollider + Post-silicon Processors
Blog By the 1980s, some examples had been found - buckyballs, where the honeycomb wraps to form a sphere, and nanotubes, where it curls into a long tube. It is in the nature of physics that some of the weirdest things live in the plainest view.
[November 6, 2007, 9:15]
