Carbon gourds hold gas, not water
Recently created carbon structures shaped like calabashes could one day serve as tiny, highly portable storage vessels for hydrogen fuel.
References:
Wang, Z.L., J.S. Yin, and Z.C. Kang. 1998. Carbon spheres and graphitic hollow carbon calabashes. Meeting of the Materials Research Society. November. Boston.
Further Readings:
1990. Making scads of molecular soccer balls. Science News 138(Oct. 13):238.
Amato, I. 1990. Buckeyballs get their first major physical. Science News 138(Dec. 8):357.
Curl, R.F., and R.E. Smalley. 1991. Fullerenes. Scientific American 265(October):54.
Peterson, I. 1985. Molecular carbon: Playing ‘buckyball.’ Science News 128(Nov. 23):325.
Taube, G. 1991. The disputed birth of buckyballs. Science 253(Sept. 27):1476.
Wang, Z.L., and J.S. Yin. 1998. Graphitic hollow carbon calabashes. Chemical Physics Letters 289(June 5):189.
Wu, C. 1996. Buckyballs bounce into Nobel history. Science News 150(Oct. 13):247.
Sources:
Jagdish Narayan
North Carolina State University
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Raleigh, NC 27695-7907Zhong Lin ‘ZL’ Wang
Georgia Institute of Technology
Materials Science and Engineering
Room 228, Bunger-Henry Building
778 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0245
From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 24, December 12,
1998, p. 373.
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