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Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.

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Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.

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In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.

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It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

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Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.

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Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 6th, 1943

Died: October 28th, 2005

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