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The Discovery of C 60

This article discusses the discovery of C60, a carbon-based molecule, in interstellar clouds and its implications for the origin of diffuse interstellar lines. It also explores the various experiments and technologies used to identify and study C60.

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The Discovery of C 60

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  1. The Discovery of C60 ACS Philadelphia 2016

  2. Rick atop Ap2

  3. Ion Detector Cluster Source UV Laser Ionization Cluster beam TOF mass spectrometer Laser vaporization

  4. Cluster beam source

  5. Harry Kroto

  6. Carbon Chain Molecules Found in Interstellar Clouds

  7. Emulating the Stars in the Lab

  8. The Diffuse ISB’s NASA

  9. Origin of the Diffuse Interstellar lines Here I suggest that the lines are caused by the absorption of polyatomic molecules and that the line width is the result of radiationless internal conversion between stable states. Furthermore, I propose that the absorbing species are long chain carbon molecules, Cn, where n may lie in the range 5-15. A. E. Douglas, Nature 269, 130 (1977)

  10. Variations in C60 peak intensity

  11. Buckminster Fuller’s Dome at Expo 67

  12. Smalley’s C60 Paper Model

  13. Kroto’s Stardome Map of the sky on a truncated icosahedron consisting of pentagons as well as hexagons

  14. Buckminsterfullerene C60

  15. Osawa 1971

  16. Adjacent Pentagon Fullerenes C60 C36 One of 1812 fullerene isomers with 60 carbon atoms

  17. After bucky C60, this C70 structure is the first without adjacent pentagons C70

  18. Krätschmer et al. Arc Apparatus for Making Fullerenes

  19. The diffuse interstellar bands In the original letter to Nature, we suggested that buckminsterfullerene might be a carrier of the dib’s. After enormous creative effort, John Maier’s group found two clear matches* of C60+. E.K. Campbell, M. Holz, D. Gerlich and J.P. Maier Nature. 523: 322 (2015)

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