With the FIFA World Cup final around the corner, could our everyday electronics one day feature a miniature soccer ball on a chip? (IMAGE)

Institute of Science and Technology Austria

With the FIFA World Cup final around the corner, could our everyday electronics one day feature a miniature soccer ball on a chip?

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With the FIFA World Cup final around the corner, could our everyday electronics one day feature a miniature soccer ball on a chip? Foreground: Toy model of a spherical C60 buckminsterfullerene molecule—a nano ‘soccer ball’.

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