Hans asks what we might happen to know about C60 - which
is I thank, also called Fullerene. It is a high temperature
superconductor. Oh how I wish it were room-temp. Oh well.
Saw a thing in James's December Scientific American that a
guy working for NEC in Japan found some tubes of this stuff
on the tips of the carbon arc filaments he was using to make
it.
Seems that since it is a natural geodesic, it tends to form
balls naturally. *Really* good lubircation. Well, tubes
seem to form as helixes, and are about 100X stronger than
Kevlar (tm). And the ends of the tubes heal themselves shut
when cut; the helix won't unravel.
I'd sure like to make a hull out of this stuff. :=)
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Richard Johnson [email removed]
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