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Fullerene: Fullerene Science
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Fullerene science is an exciting and interdisciplinary area of current research activity. In this module, fullerene science is used to introduce the following chemical concepts: molecular structure and bonding, solid-state structure, modern spectroscopy, chemical reactivity, and synthesis. The material is presented in the form of an instructor's manual. Student activities and problems are included, as are literature references. Two important aspects of the module are hands-on model building and student use of the original literature. Development of this module was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation (Division of Undergraduate Education) to the ChemLinks Coalition.
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Fullerene purification is the process of obtaining a fullerene compound free of contamination. In fullerene production mixtures of C60, C70 and higher homologues are always formed. Fullerene purification is key to fullerene science and determines fullerene prices and the success of practical applications of fullerenes. The first available purification method for C60 fullerene was by HPLC from which small amounts could be generated at large expense.
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The figures in the Fullerene Science module may be downloaded in Microsoft PowerPoint format for use by the instructor. There is ... an Adobe Portable Document format for viewing only. The figures for each section are in separate documents for ease in downloading.
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The name Fullerene was given to commemorate the American inventor, architect and philosopher Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1993) who designed constructions built from pentagons and hexagons. The smallest known fullerene is C60. Fullerenes have potential applications as super- and semiconductors and in material science. In the natural environment, fullerenes can be found for example in Shunga/Russia, New Zealand and Sudbury/Canada.
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Fullerene is a cutting-edge, 21st-century material that is called “a third allotrope of carbon” after diamond and graphite. The discovery of fullerene, for which Kroto, Smalley and Curl were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996, was acclaimed as the first landmark achievement in carbon science in 200 years after the discovery of diamond. Fullerene has a breadth of potential applications as it has many “chemical bonds” enabling synthesis of a variety of properties and has the form of a hollow sphere, which can contain other materials.
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