Building, molecule by molecule.(the Research Division at International Business Machines has created a nano-engineering 'abacus' with eachbead representing individual molecules)(Brief Article)

Industry Week,  February, 1997  

Tags: IBM Corp., molecule

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00-00-0000 IN A TOUR DE FORCE OF nano-engineering, scientists at the IBM Research Div.'s Zurich Laboratory have built an "abacus" with individual molecules as beads. The feat dramatizes the potential of assembling structures from the bottom up, as nature does, molecule by molecule, says James K.

Gimzewski, project leader. The "beads" are carbon molecules called buckminsterfullerenes or bucky balls, named after Buckminster Fuller, the ...

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