Fullerenes formation in flames
- Author
- Howard, Jack B.
- Published
- Feb 1, 1993.
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- Fullerenes are composed of carbon atoms arranged in approximately spherical or ellipsoidal cages resembling the geodesic domes designed by Buckminster Fuller, after whom the molecules were named. The approximately spherical fullerene, which resembles a soccer ball and contains sixty atoms (C60), is called buckminsterfullerene. The fullerene containing seventy carbon atoms (C70) is approximately ellipsoidal, similar to a rugby ball. Fullerenes were first detected in 1985, in carbon vapor produced by laser evaporation of graphite. The closed shell structure, which has no edge atoms vulnerable to reaction, was proposed to explain the observed high stability of certain carbon clusters relative to that of others at high temperatures and in the presence of an oxidizing gas.
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- Document ID: 19930010998.
Accession ID: 93N20187.
NASA, Lewis Research Center, The Second International Microgravity Combustion Workshop; p 73-79. - Terms of Use and Reproduction
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