[Cincinatus' Wife]

Grapic with article.

[tahotdog]

Don't know about buckeyballs, but we should be making buildings and bridges out of carbonfiber and not out of steel.

[Paul C. Jesup]

For those who don't know what the article is talking about, it is about carbon nanotubes in a Helix shape.

I was wondering when the eco-nuts would start demonizing this technology and research.

The eco-nut who wrote this article has an agenda, that agenda is to destory and stop research into technology. In other words, this article is complete BS.

[SteveMcKing]

A Mitsubishi Corp. subsidiary in Japan already can make 40 tons of buckyballs a year and has plans to expand its capacity to 1,500 tons annually within a few years.

I am FLOORED. I thought they were strictly a micro-scale product.

[Truth29]

Somewhat off topic, but what is it about the left and naked demonstrators?

[KeyWest]

Caution is appropriate, but some nanotech is actually fairly big. They start with molecular level things like bucky balls and go up from there. By starting small they keep it small, but not always nano. The next crop of TVs will be in that category, with nanotubes as the staring point for pixel creation.

[MagnoliaB]

'nanotechnology', 'nanotubes', 'nanoparticles', 'nanomaterials', 'nanofibers'.....Just think, after all this time, we finally realize Mork was talking about 'Buckyballs'.

Nano nano!

[dasboot]

Yikes! Kurt Vonnegut's "Ice 9".

[Fresh Wind]

The National Science Foundation gave Rice a five-year, $12.4 million grant in 2001...

Time to start shaking the money tree again.

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

The actual name of these compounds is "Buckminsterfullerenes" or "fullerenes" for short. Named after the inventor of the geodesic domes that have the same shape as the molecule.

[lupie]

bump for later read

[narby]

It's just carbon. Big deal.

It looks like government is literally researching new ways they can regulate us.

Government sucks.

[dc-zoo]

I love the smell of buckyballs in the morning. Technology rocks!

[MortMan]

Last month, in front of a Chicago Eddie Bauer store, which markets paints that include nanomaterials to prevent staining, a group called THONG protested the company's use of nanofibers

Thank goodness they didn't DANTHE! ;-P

[Mike Darancette]

The new results compound concerns raised by earlier studies that found buckyballs can cause brain damage in bass and harm human cells.

I thought that buckyballs occurred in nature.