The carbon molecule known as a buckyball, a member of the fullerene family, can act as a cage for a variety of other chemicals. And now researchers have used one to trap a single molecule of water. The work appears in the journal Science . [Kei Kurotobi and Yasujiro Murata, A Single Molecule of Water Encapsulated in Fullerene C60 ]

Placing a molecule that's essential to life within a spherically symmetrical one could let researchers learn more about each. [More]



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Source: Buckyball Traps Single Water Molecule



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