organic resonance energy

[lostmente]

An idea that got given to me just this weekend and im still looking into

buckminsterfullerene has conjugated pi-orbitals, on the outside these are dispersed and mostly discrete. I have found nothing although I'm terrible at looking into the conditions found inside the bucky ball.

I theorize if one places an appropriate conductive (metallic) crystal cell unit then the potentially free electrons can pass through the unit cell and have excess energy in them expelled as radiation, then the electron at a fixed lower energy level will pass out and be attracted to the nearest carbon where it gains its potential again.

I really don't understand how this might work but it seems to be a logical flow, just how does the carbon cage handle having to re-energize these electrons?

[lostmente]

current Metal Endohedrals show the metal atom off center and randomly spinning, prehaps if one can lodge the metal matrix into the walls of the fullerene one can center the metal atom to some degree and even transfer its percieved random motion

[sdanielmsev]

House Painter

I am maybe stupid, but aren't Bucky Balls more a means to transfer movement.as opposed to having any "real" potential?

[lostmente]

transfer movement? in terms of macroscopic (well the entire fullerene anyway) I would think it would be difficult to examine a moving fullerene. The movement of the metal atom is detected by NMR which is pretty darn quick so maybe it does not perceive the movement of the fullerene.

Fullerene type compounds are being investigated for structural capacities mostly. But the thing I'm getting at is although the pi-orbitals of the outer surface are well documented, the inner pi orbitals could well resemble something like  that found in benzene which has some rather strange effects, and to have an object enclosed by such a dislocated pi-orbital cloud could do some 'funky' shit

[sdanielmsev]

from house painter

    Could you explain in layman's term how that would work, as exposing electrons for capture?