I think our blog deserves an explanation- how we got such a strange name for it??
Katya:
The Fullarene is one of the carbon forms, there is graphite and diamond, which have structures that allow them to combine infinete number of atoms, but in a spesific spatial structure, and there is the fullarene which is a mollecule of 60 carbon atoms, shaped like a football sphere with the pentagons and the hexagons on it. It was named after Buckminster Fuller because of his domes, and it is and revolutionary substance. It is still being researched but there are suggestions that it could be extremely important for the production of superconductors, if theoriticly, say we pierce that sphere with metal molecules it is said that it would be possibible not to loose the heat energy while conducting eleetrisity. A resolution like that could mean up to 60% more energy from the same sorces.
Katya:
The Fullarene is one of the carbon forms, there is graphite and diamond, which have structures that allow them to combine infinete number of atoms, but in a spesific spatial structure, and there is the fullarene which is a mollecule of 60 carbon atoms, shaped like a football sphere with the pentagons and the hexagons on it. It was named after Buckminster Fuller because of his domes, and it is and revolutionary substance. It is still being researched but there are suggestions that it could be extremely important for the production of superconductors, if theoriticly, say we pierce that sphere with metal molecules it is said that it would be possibible not to loose the heat energy while conducting eleetrisity. A resolution like that could mean up to 60% more energy from the same sorces.
Thank you for that quote Ross, love the picture :)
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