If you have 12 minutes to spare, you can make your own tiny electric motor out of BuckyBalls. Graham Nash's BuckyBall motor tutorial. (Image via YouTube) YouTube user Graham Nash creates tutorials on ...

Just as the key building block to life on earth is the carbon atom, carbon is the key to one of the most promising branches of nanotechnology. Much of the current research and commercialisation of ...

Scientists have characterized the quantum behavior of buckminsterfullerene molecules, also known as buckyballs, with the hope of perhaps one day turning them into miniature quantum computers.

Buckyballs are the rule-breakers of chemistry. These strange molecules are made up of 60 carbon atoms, fused together in a soccer-ball shape. For years, scientists assumed they could only be made in ...

Fullerenes are hollow molecules made entirely of carbon atoms arranged in closed, cage-like structures. The best-known fullerene is C60, also called a buckyball or buckminsterfullerene, whose 60 ...

Carbon, the building block of every living thing on this planet, may turn out to be the source of a new class of potent drugs that will treat conditions as varied as AIDS, Lou Gehrig's disease, ...