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Buckyball Traps Single Water Molecule

The carbon molecule known as a buckyball, a member of the fullerene family, can act as a cage for a variety of other chemicals. And now researchers have used one to trap a single molecule of water. The work appears in the journal Science.
一種稱作足球烯的碳分子，它是富勒家族中的一員，可以像籠子一樣困住別的化學(xué)分子?，F(xiàn)在，研究人員已經(jīng)能應(yīng)用一個足球烯困住單個水分子。這個報道在《科學(xué)》雜志上已經(jīng)出現(xiàn)了。

Placing a molecule that's essential to life within a spherically symmetrical one could let researchers learn more about each.
將“生命之源”——水分子放在球形對稱體上可以讓研究人員更詳細(xì)地研究兩者。
Water molecules stick together, because they carry a slight charge on each end. As the positive pole of one H2O attracts the negative pole of another, the molecules cling tightly together. You can't separate a single water molecule from its fellows with a tiny pair of tweezers, so isolating it in a carbon cage may reveal new secrets about the intrinsic nature of a lone H2O.
因?yàn)樗肿拥膬蛇呌猩倭康碾姾桑麄儠嗷フ尺B。當(dāng)水分子的正極吸引另一分子的負(fù)極時，兩個分子a緊密連接在一起。你不能用小鑷子將他們分成單個的分子。因此，用碳籠把他們分成獨(dú)立的分子將會顯示出單個水分子內(nèi)在性質(zhì)的新奧秘。

What about the cage itself? Researchers already know that buckyballs refuse to dissolve in water, sometimes even floating like miniature beach balls. But what happens when the water is within? Putting polar molecules inside buckyballs may influence the chemical behavior of their outsides, and create new molecules with unique properties. Not to mention making our understanding even…fuller.
那對于籠子本身又會發(fā)生什么？研究人員得出足球烯不溶于水，有時甚至?xí)袼で蛞粯痈≡谒?。但是?dāng)水在球里面會發(fā)生什么呢？將極性分子放在足球烯中會使得他們的化學(xué)性質(zhì)與在外面的有所不同，并且產(chǎn)生特殊性質(zhì)的新分子。更不要說對富勒家族的了解了。

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