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?

House Painter

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

from house painter

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

well...

aromaticity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromaticity

look at the de localized cloud of electrons. Imagine those relatively free electrons colliding with say an up jump phosphor analogue (upjump can absorb 2 photons in a short period and produce on higher energy photon momentarily later)(or perhaps a electronic chlorophyll?)

So what im saying is on the odd occasion an electron from the cloud interacts with the valence shell of the say metal atom, then it will eventually get ejected....BUT often when a electron is ejected from a valence shell a photon is also ejected....this leads to a momentum imbalance....now the electron will return to the valence cloud where it will become more localised for a time until it stresses the fullerene (or more appropriate structure...looking further into the variety's one has not been found but they are getting closer) and its potential is restored.

So by drawing energy from stressing the carbon cage one has a metal core (which could be a molecular magnet) that is spontaneously under an accelerating force (ie the direction of the force does not hold)

Sounds like an artifical Maxwell's Daemon. 

I can not explain whether or not the expelled electrons will regain their potential but they seem to have an avenue...so now what i want to understand is the stress distribution a quasi de localised electron can have on such a construct as it tries to achieve a de localized state once more.