The Fullerenes - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0080421520 ISBN 13: 9780080421520

Publisher: Pergamon, 1993

Synopsis

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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Review:

"...a thin yet substantial volume. History and current research and related fields, including even a chapter on architecture, come together in this book." Istvan Hargittal, The Chemical Intelligencer

Book Description:

In 1990, Buckminsterfullerene C60 was isolated for the first time in macroscopic amounts. This book presents papers from key scientists in the Buckminsterfullerene story.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0080421520
• ISBN 13: 9780080421520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Kroto H. W., Etc., Fischer John E., Cox David E.