1. Hot times for buckyball superconductors.
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Pennisi, Elizabeth
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BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE , *HIGH temperature superconductivity , *SEMICONDUCTOR films , *SUPERCONDUCTORS , *RUBIDIUM , *THALLIUM - Abstract
Reports that scientists have found that by adding rubidium and thallium to a film of buckyballs they can make a superconductor that works up to at least 42 kelvins. Research at Allied-Signal, Inc. in New Jersey into the soccerball-shaped molecules that can conduct electricity without resistance; The status of 60-carbon buckyball or C60 in the fullerene family; Superconductivity research at NEC Corp.'s Fundamental Research Laboratories in Japan; Chemists working on buckyball films; Effort of Paul W.C. Chu to develop a crystal of the carbon spheres.
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- 1991
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