Kroto C60: Buckminsterfullerene

Some Inside Stories
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-981-4463-72-0
Verlag: Pan Stanford Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 196 Seiten

Reihe: Pan Stanford Series on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology

This compendium of accounts reveals the unique perspectives of many scientists who made major contributions to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of C60 buckminsterfullerene but who have not previously published personal accounts. The introduction attempts to provide a rational framework for understanding how this discovery came about and how firmly it rested on earlier technical breakthroughs and how important the contributions of researchers who were young students at the time were. In addition to these accounts, most of the key publications are also reprinted. More than anything else, this book gives an in-depth overview of how important cross-disciplinary advances from laboratory synthesis, molecular spectroscopy, radioastronomy, stellar chemistry, and cluster chemistry were in the discovery. Indeed the story shows not only how major breakthroughs are often impossible to predict but also that the discovery is a perfect example of the value of fundamental science and why it must continue to be supported.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kroto, Harold W.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Oberflächen- und Grenzflächenphysik, Dünne Schichten
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Biomaterialien, Nanomaterialien, Kohlenstoff
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie Molekulare Chemische Nanostrukturen
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nanotechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

SECTION A

Introduction; Harry Kroto

SECTION B Personal Accounts

History of "the Nozzle"; Lennard Wharton

Up the Carbon Path; David Jones

In My Time: Scenes from a Scientific Life (extract); Sydney Leach

Early Days in the Rick Smalley Lab; Michael Duncan

Discovery of IRC+10216; Eric Becklin

The Discovery of the Fullerenes; Sean O’Brien

How I Conceived Soccer-Ball Molecule C60?

Partial Translation of a book, "Aromaticity" (in Japanese); Eiji Osawa

The First Stepwise Chemical Synthesis of C60; Larry Scott

C60, Arizona, Don Huffman, and Other Stories; Lowell Lamb

A PhD Student Account of the C60 Story; Jon Hare

The C60 Buckminsterfullerene Formation Process: New Revelations after 25 Years; Paul Dunk

Über Autor(innen)

Sir Harold (Harry) Walter Kroto, FRS, is the British chemist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley. Kroto is the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at the Florida State University, which he joined in 2004. Prior to that, he spent a large part of his career at the University of Sussex, where he now holds an emeritus professorship.