Fullerenes and protective fields
The size of fullerene is no limit as I have written. The size of that kind of ball could be even trillions of carbon atoms, and the thing, that makes that ball-shaped carbon extremely important and interesting tool in nanotechnology is that the fullerene balls act like single carbon atoms, and that means the fullerene can connect with another fullerene. That makes the allotropic form of carbon a very powerful tool in nanotechnology. But there is one thing, what makes fullerene also interesting, is that there will be possible to make the self-forming carbon ball, what would be formed to protect some structure.
The idea is that the structure like house, vehicle or even spacecraft would be spraying the hexagon-shaped carbon molecules to the bubble, where the structure, what should be protected is, and then those hexagon-shaped molecules would form the ball-shaped carbon structure around the structure, and when the threat is gone, the connections of the carbon atoms would be removed, and the carbon would be pulled back in the system. This kind of system can protect the astronauts or tanks against the strikes against kinetic objects.
If we are thinking about future space stations, those things can be covered by using the 2-dimensional carbon layers, and if the creators of the structure want to maximize the power of this kind of armor, the carbon layers could be separated from each other. If the outer layer of the carbon core rotates, the impact energy of the kinetic object, what impacts on the layer would not transfer it's kinetic energy to the layer, and also rotating core would share the electromagnetic radiation to the larger areas.
The idea of this kind of thing is similar, which is used in spacecraft. When the spacecraft is rotating the heat energy will expand in larger areas or smoothly across the craft. But there is a possibility to handle electromagnetic radiation another way. The layer where the laser- or some particle ray will hit can cool extremely low temperatures. And the energy of those high energy weapons can conduct to the battery, and pump away by using some electromagnetic transmitter. That kind of system can protect the spacecraft from the solar wind.
When we are thinking about the structures of tomorrow, we might think that the fullerene and graphene are the most interesting materials of tomorrow. If we will create the structure, that is formed by separated layers of 2-dimension graphite that thing would make possible to make extremely hard and also lightweight structure. The idea is that the graphene layers could hover separately from each other, and when the kinetic particle hits that structure, it must break each layer separately, which makes it a very interesting structure for the next-generation armors and other things.
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