For a while we saw dozens of PhD dissertations of someone's favorite molecule entrapped in a fullerene. Why not ours?
But CNTs make more sense for a V1DLLBEC theory. You constrain every vibrational reaction direction except up-or-down the tube. Things happen in 1 direction that don't happen in 2 or 3 directions. In the case you are speculating about, it would be that things happen in 0 directions, right? On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > Imagine... a Fullerene... which is of course 60 atoms of carbon arranged in > the famous tightly bound sphere, and known to be superconductor in certain > conditions -- but now we fully hydrogenate these carbon atoms with > deuterium > to produce C60D60. > > I can think of no reason that this cannot be done. A brief google turns up > nothing for this exact species, but did turn up an indication that the > hydrogen version, C60H60 has been made in the Lab... If C60 will > hydrogenate > at all, then it should be possible to use only deuterium to arrive at > C60D60. > > The reason: well, consider that FD or Fullerene Deuteride - C60D60 - would > have interesting nuclear properties - as a massive stable boson in a dense > unit. Eat your heart out, Higgs :-) > > Carbon is all three boson types: a nuclear boson, an atomic boson and a > molecular boson. Ditto for deuterium. Ditto for FD but, wow... FD has an > atomic weight of 840 amu. That's almost 7 times more massive than the > Higgs, > and extremely stable. It is probably superconductive as well, but that is a > guess. > > Thus, FD would be a massive boson in a perfect sphere containing nuclear > active isotopes and possibly superconductive, and one more feature - in the > size range of many excitons. > > Of course, there are larger Fullerenes (in amu) but carbon alone has high > nuclear stability so having lots of deuterium present could make this > hyper-boson most interesting for fusion ... say as a target for ICF... or > even for implosion by SPP. Who knows? > > FD-CF or FD-ICF ... take your pick. > > You heard it first on Vortex... :-) > > >
