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| Carbon nanotubes and Buckyballs (named after polymath Buckminster Fuller) are atomic-scale chicken-wire-like mesh cages with remarkable properties, leading to intriguing fundamental science as well as new technological applications. Though discovered by science only recently, they are a form of carbon, like diamond, coal and graphite, that is produced by natural processes -- in this case, they can be found in the soot from the burning of carbonaceous material. |