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Technology Research News June 2, 2004	Buckyballs Gain Smaller Kin Researchers from Xiamen University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have constructed a smaller version of the buckyball or C60 fullerene molecule, a spherical cage of carbon atoms.
Chemistry World May 30, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization.
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Chemistry World January 21, 2011 Russell Johnson	Jump starting prebiotic photochemistry Light activated reactions of organic molecules in fatty acid membranes offers a plausible method for energy transfer and storage in prebiotic systems, claim US scientists.
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Technology Research News September 10, 2003	Gold speck highlights molecules How do you sense what is happening at the scale of molecules? Researchers have found a way to detect the very small spectral shifts that occur when the light scattering off a single gold nanoparticle interacts with molecules.
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Chemistry World July 27, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Space Monster Discovered Astrochemists who waited 25 years to find an anion in space have spotted three in less than a year.
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National Defense May 2009 Robert H. Williams	Carbon Film Enhances Space Probe Diamond like carbon films that were developed at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., are being used on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer to help determine how solar wind interacts with the matter that exists between stars.
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Chemistry World July 13, 2015 Philip Ball	First snapshot of elusive intermediate supplies surprise A team near Zurich in Switzerland, has been able to take a single-molecule snapshot of an intermediate in a common class of organic reactions.
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Reactive Reports November 2007 David Bradley	Cats Don't Work Like That Scientists have discovered that the three-way catalytic converter in your car converts carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide in two reaction steps, instead of a single step as previously thought.
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Chemistry World February 26, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Nanotubes Sprout Fullerene Buds A new carbon-based hybrid material is set to make an impact on the microelectronics industry. Christened 'nanobuds', the material consists of single-walled carbon nanotubes with football-shaped fullerenes stuck on their outer surfaces.
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Chemistry World March 6, 2014 Emma Stoye	Buckyballs form up into quasicrystal layer Flat, two-dimensional layers of molecules structured like quasicrystals -- crystals that show order without repeating patterns -- have been made for the first time by scientists in the UK and Japan.
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