Until recently, the element carbon was believed to exhibit only two main allotropic forms, diamond and graphite. Research in the US and Europe has now confirmed the existence of a third previously unknown form - buckminsterfullerene (C 60) and its relatives, the fullerenes (C 24, C 28, C 32,C 70 etc). The story of fullerene chemistry, physics and materials science began in 1985, almost twenty years after the existence of a spherical carbon cluster was first considered. In September 1985 a joint Sussex /Rice Universities team including Kroto, Heath, O'Brien, Curl and Smalley used a powerful mass spectrometric technique to identify the C+ 60 species, and proposed a spherical structure and the name buckminsterfullerene. It was not, however, until Kratschmer and Huffman reported the isolation of crystals of C 60, in 1990 that the closed cage structure of C 60 could be confirmed. The Fullerenes documents the work leading up to 1990 and more recent developments in the field of fullerene research and will serve as a reference tool for all workers in this area.
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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307 illustrations, 15 photographs, 1200 references
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Höhe: 272 mm
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978-0-08-042152-0 (9780080421520)
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University of Pennsylvania, USA
Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Contents: Selected section headings: Introduction. Fullerites: new forms of crystalline carbon. Pre-1990 evidence for the fullerene proposal. Molecular beam studies of fullerenes. Fullerenes synthesis in combustion. Chemical reactivityand functionalization of C 60 and C 70 fullerenes. Isomerizations of the fullerenes. The geometry of hypothetical curved graphite structures. Superconducting and normal state properties of A 3 C 60 compounds. Fullerenes and fullerides in the solidstate: neutron scattering studies. Structure, dynamics and ordering transition of solid C 60 Optical phonon modes in solid and doped C 60 . High resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy of epitaxial films of C 60 grown on GaSe. Electronic structures of C 60. C 70, and the fullerides: photoemission and inverse photoemission studies. Buckminsterfullerene C 60 and organic ferromagnetism.