Going for the Gold With Carbon

A Brief History of Buckyballs

 

Outline

 

Part One - in which we meet the principle characters and survey events leading to the experiments of September 1985 (to part one)

Part Two - the crucial experiments - of lasers, mass spectrometers, Mexican food, gummy bears, footballs and Stardomes - who put the Bucky in Buckyball? (to part two)

Part Three - the lean years - is it a football or not, and will there ever be enough to find out? (to part three)

Part Four - the floodgates are opened - it is a football, but does anyone care? (to part four)

Part Five - is there such as thing as molecular puberty, and have the fullerenes reached it, or skipped over it? (to part five)

Part Six - what defines an application or a new technology? - are there more tubes than spheres in our future? (to part six)

Part Seven - how you gonna keep back in the lab, after they've seen Stockholm? (to part seven)

 

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  • Flick Coleman wcoleman@wellesley.edu
  • Dept. of Chemistry
  • Date Created: Mar 4, 1997
  • Last Modified: July 11, 1998
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