James R. Riordon

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Hands hold a ball-and-stick model of a pill-shaped molecule called a fullertube.

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‘Fullertubes’ Join the Family of Carbon Crystals

December 20, 2022

The buckminsterfullerene revolution never came, but some researchers are eagerly exploring the properties of newfound carbon crystals known as fullertubes.

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James Riordon is a freelance science writer who covers physics, math, and astronomy in stories that have appeared in Scientific American, Science News and Science, among other publications. His book Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino, with co-author Alan Chodos, is due out in February 2023 from MIT Press.

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‘Fullertubes’ Join the Family of Carbon Crystals

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‘Fullertubes’ Join the Family of Carbon Crystals