1. Rick Smalley
Rice University
Metal Clusters
Fe10 Si6 Al20
etc
lens
Laser beam
Metal target

2. Plasma in lab Exploding Star
Try to reproduce the stellar plasma in the laboratory

3. Focused Laser beam produces 10000o plasma
lens
Carbon chains molecules
Graphite Target

4. Jim Heath and Sean O’Brien

5. Yuan Liu

6. Laser and graphite disk
skimmer hole to mass spectrometer
carbon plasma cluster beam
Laser Vapourisation Cluster Beam System - Smalley

7. Mass spectrum of carbon clusters (4-9-85) in which C60 and C70 were first recognised as special

8. Buckminster Fuller’s Dome at Expo 67

9. C60: Buckminsterfullerene

10. lens
A BIG surprise
Graphite Target

11. lens
C60 clusters
Graphite Target

16. rather like the floor of the Curl’s washroom
Graphite consists of sheets of carbon atoms in hexagonal arrays
rather like the floor of the Curl’s washroom

18. Stardome
Map of the sky on a truncated icosahedron consisting of pentagons as well as hexagons

21. Crystals of Buckminsterfullerene obtained by Kraetschmer and co-workers

24. nmr spectrum of soot extract

27. The Goode Company, Houston

29. A fundamental advance was made at Rice University in Texas.
The Second Strand
A fundamental advance was made at Rice University in Texas.
Smalley and co-workers developed a technique which enabled large metal clusters (with tens of atoms) to be studied for the first time

31. Graphite is known to consist of layers of hexagonally packed carbon atoms

32. Supersonic cluster beam nozzle
Focused laser beam
Solenoid valve
Helium
Rotating metal disk
Aggregating clusters
2cm
Smalley and co-workers - Rice University 1981