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Discovering the Fullerenes (Nobel Lecture)
Author(s) -
Smalley Richard E.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199715941
Subject(s) - fullerene , laser vaporization , vaporization , cluster (spacecraft) , carbon fibers , nanotechnology , realization (probability) , materials science , chemistry , laser , physics , optics , computer science , mathematics , organic chemistry , composite material , statistics , composite number , programming language
Bucky get the prize —eleven years after the discovery of C 60 in 1985, the realization that carbon makes this truncated isosahedral molecule, and larger geodesic cages, all by itself is honored with the Nobel Prize. Only with the development of laser‐vaporization cluster beam methods did the particular signification of C 60 become apparent. Indeed the discovery process with respect to fullerenes and the properties of carbon is far from being complete.