Buckyball birth observed by Sandia nanotech researcher

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Atomic images of the inside of a nanotube show the formation of fullerenes their reduction to C-60 buckyballs and their dispersion when heated beyond that point. The images were taken by a transmission electron microscope. Credit: SNL
Atomic images of the inside of a nanotube show the formation of fullerenes, their reduction to C-60 buckyballs, and their dispersion when heated beyond that point. The images were taken by a transmission electron microscope. Credit: SNL

Almost everyone in the scientific community has heard of buckyballs, but no one until Sandia’s Jianyu Huang has seen one being born.


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