• DOI:10.1038/318162a0
Corpus ID: 4314237

C60: Buckminsterfullerene

@article{Kroto1985C60B,
  title={C60: Buckminsterfullerene},
  author={H. Kroto and J. Heath and S. C. O'brien and R. Curl and R. Smalley},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1985},
  volume={318},
  pages={162-163}
}

• H. Kroto, J. Heath, +2 authors R. Smalley
• Published 1985
• Chemistry
• Nature

During experiments aimed at understanding the mechanisms by which long-chain carbon molecules are formed in interstellar space and circumstellar shells1, graphite has been vaporized by laser irradiation, producing a remarkably stable cluster consisting of 60 carbon atoms. Concerning the question of what kind of 60-carbon atom structure might give rise to a superstable species, we suggest a truncated icosahedron, a polygon with 60 vertices and 32 faces, 12 of which are pentagonal and 20… Expand