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Physics and Chemistry of the Fullerenes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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Physics and Chemistry of the Fullerenes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
Series: NATO Science Series C, 443
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In September 1985, in an attempt to simulate the chemistry in a
carbon star, Harry Kroto, Bob Curl and Richard Smalley set up a
mass spectrometry experiment to study the plasma produced by
focusing a pulsed laser on solid graphite. Serendipitously, a
dominant 720 amu mass peak corresponding to a C60 species was
revealed in the time-of-flight mass spectrum of the resulting
carbon clusters. It was proposed that this C60 cluster had the
closed cage structure of a truncated icosahedron (a soccerball) and
was named Buckminsterfullerene because geodesic dome concepts,
pioneered by the architect Buckminster Fuller, played an important
part in arriving at this solution. The signal for a C70 species
(840 amu) , proposed to have the ellipsoidal shape of a rugbyball,
was also prominent in the early experiments. Five years later, the
seminal work of the Sussex! Rice collaboration was triumphantly
confirmed as Wolfgang Krlitschmer and Donald Huffman succeeded in
producing, and separating, bulk crystalline samples of fullerene
material from arc-processed (in an inert gas atmosphere) carbon
deposits. From then onwards, fullerene research continued, and
still proceeds, at an exhilarating pace. The materials excited the
imagination of many diverse classes of scientists, resulting in a
truly interdisciplinary field. Many of our old, seemingly
well-founded, preconceptions in carbon science had to be radically
altered or totally abandoned, as a new round world of chemistry,
physics and materials science began to unfold.
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