fullerenes

The designation fullerenes is taken from the name of an American architect, R. Buckminster Fuller, who had designed a dome having the form of a football for the

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

We are delighted that our contribution in the discovery of the carbon cage molecules that we called the fullerenes is being recognized.

Robert F. Curl Jr.- Banquet Speech 1997

The subsequent development of my research in metal and semiconductor clusters, and the fullerenes is too involved to recount here.

Richard E. Smalley - Autobiography 1997

Today there are more than one hundred fullerene patents, but a large-scale commercial use for these exciting fullerenes is still to be found.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 1996

The production of fullerenes is still very expensive, which limits their use.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 1996

A Los Alamos National Laboratory toxicologist and a multidisciplinary team of researchers have documented potential cellular damage from "fullerenes" - soccer-ball-shaped, cage-like molecules composed of 60 carbon atoms.

innovations-report 2010

Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.

Bucky returns, in paper form « Boy Genius Report 2008

Today Sagman, 47, is president of C Sixty, a Toronto-based nanotechnology company that is developing carbon molecules called fullerenes as a drug-delivery system for cancer, AIDS and other diseases.

Tiny Weapons With Giant Potential 2007

The finding indicates that the pure carbon molecules known as fullerenes could have been a factor in the early history of Earth and might even have played a role in the origin of life.

Nobel Laureates urge rejection of intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb 2005

They were given the name fullerenes and conceivably an almost infinite number of fullerenes could exist.

Press Release: The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996