The carbon molecule known as a buckyball, a member of the fullerene family, can act as a cage for a variety of other chemicals.

一种称作足球烯的碳分子，它是富勒家族中的一员，可以像笼子一样困住别的化学分子。

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Stephen Wilson, a chemist at New York University, discovered that the surface of the fullerene molecule could be used as a scaffold to support other molecules.

ECONOMIST: Nanotechnology in biology