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	Nanotechnology
		Bucky balls, also known as Fullerenes, after the architect Buckminster Fuller, are the roundest and most symmetrical large molecule known to man and are the largest symmetrical molecules known in the nanoscience world.
		A bucky ball is chemically stable and is an allotrope of carbon.
		One form of bucky ball, known as C60 is the third major form of pure carbon; graphite and diamond are the other two.
	www.investorideas.com /Companies/Nanotechnology/News/GEMZ.asp (419 words)

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		The appropriate amount of Buckminsterfullerene (known colloquially as "Bucky Balls"), C.sub.60, was added to the reactor as a solid in a drybox and the reactor was heated again for an hour and a half at 70.degree.
		This solution was contacted with Bucky Balls (added as solid C.sub.60 for Bucky 7 and 0.4% wt solution of C.sub.60 in toluene for Bucky 8) and then coupled, terminated and coagulated as described for Bucky 1 in Example 1.
		Thus, Bucky 4 already containing a number of arms grafted to C.sub.60 is used as the coupling agent in this experiment to add yet additional arms to form an asymmetric radial polymer.
	www.godunov.com /Bucky/patents-fulltext/05278239 (3157 words)

	Accelerating-Intelligence News: Printable Single Article View (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The researchers inserted molecules of chloroform and bromoform in between bucky balls to create a "stretched" bucky ball crystal where the molecules were spaced further apart than usual.
		This had the effect of lowering the electronic and molecular attraction between neighboring bucky ball molecules in the crystal and thus reducing the effects of thermal motion.
		The bucky ball superconductors are potentially less expensive, and the physics is better understood.
	www.kurzweilai.net /news/news_printable.html?id=464 (152 words)

	Bucky Systems' (Software Development House) Profile
		Just as these Bucky Balls are of great interest to the scientific research community, so too is Bucky Systems of equal importance to the IT community.
		In many cases, Bucky Systems’ development charges are levied only once the customer realizes the value of the development — when the customer’s system is operational or the customer’s product has been sold on to, or is in use by, end-users.
		Bucky Systems’ unique culture combines the knowledge, intelligence and creativity of young talent with the discipline, substance, pedigree and mature business judgment of our processes and management team.
	www.bucky.co.za /company-profile.htm (924 words)

	PrintedMatter.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bucky Balls takes its name from R. Buckminster Fuller’s famous geodesic dome, or "Buckminster Ball," a series of hexagons, pentagons and triangles fitted together to make a round surface.
		It also, as it turns out, exists in the realm of sports: the classic soccer ball is essentially a "Buckminster Ball" consisting of twenty hexagonal and twelve pentagonal surfaces sewn together and inflated.
		Bucky Balls inhabit familiar territory for McGinness — the ambiguous area between art, design, and commerce.
	www.printedmatter.org /news/news.cfm?article_id=163 (418 words)

	Bucky Balls
		The shape defined by Bucky balls is also found in the Carbon 60 molecule, a form of pure carbon with 60 atoms in a nearly spherical configuration, the truncated icosahedron and soccer balls.
		Bucky balls consist of 60 points on the surface of a spherical shape where the distance from any point to its nearest neighboring three points on the sphere is identical for all points.
		The coordinates of the 60 vertices of a Bucky ball centered on the origin of a 3D axis are all based on phi!
	goldennumber.net /buckyball.htm (263 words)

	©rowley
		This is Bucky's name for the massive personal database he maintained since he was twelve years old.
		Bucky invented a number of dymaxion things such as a dymaxion car, a dymaxion map, dymaxion house, and dymaxion toilet.
		Bucky was convinced that the only way we can realize this incredible wealth is thru the proper use of technology.
	faculty.kc.devry.edu /scrowley/Bucky.htm (451 words)

	N.B. Bell Labs formed an independent committee in May 2002 to appraise the validity of the data ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cold as the new temperature may sound, it is warm enough for the bucky ball superconductors to function while cooled by liquid nitrogen instead of the much more expensive liquid helium.
		Bucky balls are named after American inventor R. Buckminster Fuller, since they resemble the geodesic domes that Fuller designed.
		The bucky ball superconductors, on the other hand, are potentially less expensive, and the physics is better understood, since bucky ball superconductors seem to act as conventional superconductors.
	www.lucent.com /press/0801/010830.bla.html (871 words)

	Bucky Balls
		Carbon molecules known as bucky balls can conduct electricity with no resistance at temperatures up to 117 Kelvin (-249 degrees Fahrenheit), the group reported August 30 in the on-line issue of the U.S. journal Science.
		Bucky ball crystals may be the answer, says Schoen.
		Schoen’s team made crystals by mixing bucky balls, or fullerene, with molecules of chloroform and bromoform.
	www.echoworld.com /b01/b0110/b0110-2.htm (228 words)

	SI - readmsg.aspx msgid=21369872
		Bucky balls, also known as Buckminster Fullerenes, after the architect Buckminster Fuller, are the roundest and most symmetrical large molecule known.
		Discovered in 1985 by Professors Smalley, Curl and Kroto (for which they won the Nobel Prize in 1996), bucky balls are hollow clusters of 60 carbon atoms, shaped like soccer balls.
		In 2003, Japanese researchers using a bucky ball derivative successfully inserted a hydrogen molecule into the molecular cage at the lowest energy cost then to date.
	www.siliconinvestor.com /readmsg.aspx?msgid=21369872 (422 words)

	Bucky Balls - Buckyballs Explored
		McEuen likens the carbon-60 molecule to a ball tethered to a spring that rests on the surface of a gold electrode.
		When an electron hops onto the carbon-60, the "spring" is compressed as the charge of the additional electron draws the molecule closer to the gold surface.
		McEuen says this quantized nano-mechanical movement of the carbon-60 might serve as a logic gate, a means of storing information in the position of the molecule that would be more stable and much faster than the current technology.
	www.firstscience.com /site/articles/bucky.asp (809 words)

	Future Positive : Welcome
		One of the more remarkable discoveries of the late 20th century was that nature builds nanostructures in the form of geodesic domes.
		The prototype molecule of such materials, consisting of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a pattern resembling a soccer ball, was aptly named buckminsterfullerene.
		However, it soon became apparent that "buckyballs" were only the first of a huge family of so-called fullerenes having a rich variety of shapes and sizes.
	futurepositive.synearth.net /2002/06/24 (686 words)

	bucky html
		I met Bucky Fuller in 1976 at the University of Miami.
		While Bucky did not want any remuneration for his time, I offered to turn a portion of any profits back into making holograms that would accelerate the conveyance off his synergetic geometry as we both realized the latent potential of this new medium of visual communication.
		I believe that in the spirit of Bucky's own words, "the universe wants the information to be shared," therefore there is no reason not to make this edition available to almost anyone with an interest in possibility thinking, the future, and all things Fuller.
	www.diamondimages.com /bucky/bucky.html (681 words)

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		One such possibility is the use of buckminsterfullerene, one of the most exciting new discoveries in the field of chemistry These new molecules, more commonly known as "bucky balls," appears to have a much promise in the world of AIDS technology.
		This process produced large quantities of bucky balls which could then be analyzed using conventional techniques.
		He heads groups that study the chemical reactions of fullerenes and the growth of bucky balls and bucky tubes.
	www.cem.msu.edu /~cem181h/projects/97/bucky (2246 words)

	CraZedMoM » Bucky Balls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the last book I read “Sandstorm” and the current book “Sacred Stone”, they both mention bucky balls.
		Bucky balls are the roundest and most symmetrical large molecule known to man. Buckministerfullerine continues to astonish with one amazing property after another.
		A bucky ball looks similar to a socceer ball, it does not form in chains but circles or spheres.
	crazedmom.net /WordPress/?p=39 (472 words)

	Bucky Ball-Based High-Temperature Organic Superconductors \| TG Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They're large molecules made up of 60 carbon atoms shaped like soccer balls that are named after American inventor R. Buckminster Fuller, because they resemble the geodesic domes that he designed.
		This lowered the electronic and molecular attraction between neighboring Bucky Ball molecules in the crystal.
		By building a sensitive electronic device known as a field effect transistor and connecting it to the crystal, the scientists were able to produce superconductivity in the Bucky Ball crystal at a record-breaking temperature of minus 249 degrees Fahrenheit.
	www.tgdaily.com /2001/09/07/bucky_ball (359 words)

	Bucky Balls
		Then an improbable-seeming third form of carbon was discovered: a hollow cluster of 60 carbon atoms shaped like a soccer ball.
		The geometry is the same as the pattern of seams on a soccer ball, or of the geodesic domes developed by architect Buckminster Fuller.
		Here are a couple more representations of buckyball in ball-and-stick form, one encircled by a projection of its electron density on the equatorial plane.
	www.3rd1000.com /bucky/bucky.htm (1329 words)

	ScienceDaily: Nanotubes Show Promise From TVs To Velcro
		Nanotubes, once considered the waste material that sat at the bottom of chambers used for making bucky balls, are being looked at with newfound respect by physicists, electrical engineers, and computer and materials scientists.
		Nanotubes are not a new form of carbon; they combine the molecular configurations of graphite and bucky balls, taking advantage of the properties of both.
		Enbody and Tomanek reason that by putting a bucky ball inside a nanotube, and by getting the bucky ball to slide from one end, the "zero" state, to the other, the "one" state, computer memory could be derived at the smallest known scale.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2000/03/000306075508.htm (2218 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Properties of Bucky Balls Fullerenes are formed when graphite is evaporated in an inert atmosphere.
		A “bucky” drug that will target the HIV virus is expected to be available in March 2003, six months from now.
		Fellow researcher Daniel Colbert explains that although they tried to ‘crash,’ or damage, the tubes, the inherent flexibility enabled them to return to their original shape.” (Gion, Bucky Balls) Superconductors and Catalysts: “Superconductivity is the result of electron-pairings through their mutual attraction to vibrations in the crystal’s lattice.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~basehore/buckyballpaper.doc (4928 words)

	Dedicated to Richard Buckminster Fuller (Bucky)
		Bucky has gained renown as an inventor and designer (of the Dymaxion house, car and map), the creator of the geodesic dome, the man who coined the term "Spaceship Earth" and organized the World Game, the mathematician who discovered Synergetics, and as a dogged individualist whose genius has been felt throughout the world.
		He made his mark in areas of architecture, mathematics, philosophy, religion, urban development and design, naturalism, physics, numerology, art and literature, industry and technology.
		Dome Project: Dome project at synergetics institute is intended to making dome as a shareware house, stable to live, cheap to buy, easy to build.
	www.insite.com.br /rodrigo/bucky/buckminster_fuller.html (413 words)

	Welcome Home
		Bucky's love for golf is more than well known, so he's decided to share with you his favorite courses here in town - go clean your balls, polish your putter and check them out!
		Another year of the Bucky G Skills Camp and the Mullet Open are in the books.
		Combine the inspiring poetry from Bucky and the amazing illustrative talents of Nick Johnson and you get a motivational piece of artwork like none other.
	www.buckyg.com (520 words)

	Reading OnTheWeb
		Bucky Fuller was in the news again, since a couple chemists who discovered a new form of carbon won Nobel Prizes.
		They called the new carbon "Bucky balls" because the structure of the atoms looked so much like Fuller's geodesic domes.
		Bucky balls and tubes from the Foresight Institute
	members.ll.net /ken/rocco.html (949 words)

	Building BuckyBalls - Catalyst 5.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you look closely at the lines on a soccer ball, and imagine that the lines are bonds, and the intersection of the lines are the atoms, you will find that the structures of C60 and the soccer ball are identical!
		In C60 (or in a soccer ball), the tips of two pentagons are joined by a bond, and no two share a common side (right).
		In order to construct a large number of fullerenes, I created approximately one hundred Bucky Building Blocks of all shapes and sizes, including C 30 H 10.
	chemnews.cambridgesoft.com /issue51/bucky.html (1066 words)

	Bucky Balls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bucky Balls - In addition to the more common allotropes of carbon, diamond
		The best known, discovered in 1985 is called the bucky ball or to give its technical name, Buckminster fullerene.
		The football shaped molecules consists of 60 carbon atoms made up of pentagons and hexagons.
	www.chm.bris.ac.uk /webprojects2001/may/buckyballs.htm (194 words)

	Bucky gel actuator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Electroactive polymers.
		A Bucky gel actuator is a plastic actuator based on an electroactive polymer system.
		The actuator is a polymer-supported layer of polyelectrolyte material consisting of an ionic liquid sandwiched between two electrode layers consisting of a gel of ionic liquid containing single wall carbon nanotubes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bucky_gel_actuator (138 words)

	Fullerene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He noticed that the structure of a corannurene molecule was a subset of a soccer ball, and made the hypothesis that the full ball could exist too.
		is a truncated icosahedron, which resembles a round soccer ball of the type made of hexagons and pentagons, with a carbon atom at the corners of each hexagon and a bond along each edge.
		The 6:6 ring bonds (between two hexagons) can be considered "double bonds" and are shorter than the 6:5 bonds (between a hexagon and a pentagon).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bucky_ball (1868 words)

	sci.crypt: Re: a question to Bob Silverman about factorization - OT: Recent Two-Slit Experiment result
		They measured bucky ball impacts on the other side of the
		trough pattern smoothly changed as they laser-heated the bucky balls
		Bucky balls are quite big compared to electrons, protons or neutrons.
	www.derkeiler.com /Newsgroups/sci.crypt/2004-03/1548.html (436 words)

	Re: What are the properties and applications of bucky balls?
		What are the properties and applications of bucky balls?
		Fullerenes, an allotrope of carbon, are hollow spheres and ovoids.
		You would expect them to have some properties of molecule-sized ball bearings, and they do; for example, individual C
	www.madsci.org /posts/archives/aug98/896727617.Ch.r.html (245 words)

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