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The Discovery of C60 ACS Philadelphia 2016
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Rick atop Ap2
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Cluster beam TOF mass spectrometer
Ion Detector Laser vaporization Cluster Source UV Laser Ionization
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Cluster beam source
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Harry Kroto 5
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Carbon Chain Molecules Found in Interstellar Clouds
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Emulating the Stars in the Lab
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The Diffuse ISB’s NASA
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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)
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Variations in C60 peak intensity
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Buckminster Fuller’s Dome at Expo 67
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Smalley’s C60 Paper Model
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Kroto’s Stardome Map of the sky on a truncated icosahedron consisting of pentagons as well as hexagons
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Buckminsterfullerene
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Osawa 1971
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Adjacent Pentagon Fullerenes
One of 1812 fullerene isomers with 60 carbon atoms
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After bucky C60, this C70 structure is the first without adjacent pentagons
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Arc Apparatus for Making Fullerenes
Krätschmer et al.
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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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Konarka flexible portable panel
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