fullerenes – The InfoGreenGlobal https://infogreenglobal.com The InfoGreenGlobal Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:44:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Nearly Hard as Steel: Aluminum with Fullerenes https://infogreenglobal.com/nearly-hard-as-steel-aluminum-with-fullerenes/ https://infogreenglobal.com/nearly-hard-as-steel-aluminum-with-fullerenes/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:40:26 +0000 http://infogreenglobal.com/nearly-hard-as-steel-aluminum-with-fullerenes/ Russian researchers with Siemens Corporate Technology (CT) are using special carbon nanoparticles to optimize materials. They are adding fullerenes —soccer ball-shaped molecules comprising 60 carbon atoms (C60)— to aluminum to obtain a new material that is roughly three times harder than conventional composites, yet weights much less. The lightweight yet strong aluminum could be used […]

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