Spherical allotrope

Fullerenes make up a group of spherical allotropes of carbon. 

Product content C60 spherical allotrope of carbon, important property of C60 molecule is its high symmetry nanoparticles consist short stacks of graphene sheets having a platelet shape... 

Fullerene hollow spherical allotrope of carbon containing only carbon atoms. 

The scope of tire following article is to survey the physical and chemical properties of tire tliird modification of carbon, namely [60]fullerene and its higher analogues. The entluisiasm tliat was triggered by tliese spherical carbon allotropes resulted in an epidemic-like number of publications in tire early to mid-1990s. In more recent years tire field of fullerene chemistry is, however, dominated by tire organic functionalization of tire highly reactive fullerene... 

Ceo and higher fullerenes are distinguished from other allotropes of carbon, diamond and graphite, in that they exist as discrete molecules. The spherical or ellipsoidal nature of the monotropes opens up the possibility of intriguing new areas of chemistry. Here we are only interested in the hydrogen (or muonium) adducts, although this study has important implications to the very vigorous and extensive research in fullerene chemistry. 

Abstract The past two decades have profoundly changed the view that we have of elemental carbon. The discovery of the fullerenes, spherically-shaped carbon molecules, has permanently altered the dogma that carbon can only exist in its two stable natural allotropes, graphite and diamond. The preparation of molecular and polymeric acetylenic carbon allotropes, as well as carbon-rich nanometer-sized structures, has opened up new avenues in fundamental and technological research at the interface of chemistry and the materials sciences. This article outlines some fascinating perspectives for the organic synthesis of carbon allotropes and their chemistry. Cyclo[n]carbons are the first rationally designed molecular carbon allotropes, and... 

For synthetic chemists, who are interested in the transformation of known and the creation of new matter, elemental carbon as starting material once played a minor role. This situahon changed dramatically when the family of carbon allotropes consisting of the classical forms graphite and diamond became enriched by the fullerenes. In contrast to graphite and diamond, with extended solid state stmctures, fullerenes are spherical molecules and are soluble in various organic solvents, an important requirement for chemical manipulations. 

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No other allotropic forms of carbon were known until ten years ago then arising from studies of interstellar carbonaceous molecules, a new form of carbon, namely fullerene or buckyballs , was discovered (Kroto et al 1985), for which the authors received the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Its structure is basically a ball or spherically shaped cage consisting of pure carbon. The most stable... 

Figure 5.17 shows a HREM image of a carbon allotrope having a zerodimensional (point) polymer of carbon observed at tire lower part of postshock sample I. The characteristic of the electron diffraction pattern of this type consists of two-dimensional asymmetric (hk) bands and symmetric (0001) reflections of tlie graphite structure and did not alter with tlie angle of tlie incident electron beam. In general, such patterns can be obtained when llie particle is a spherical shell, tlrat is, a zero-dimensional characteristic. Therefore,... 

The crystalline structure parameters of y-Sy and 5-87 are summarized in Table 3. While the asymmetric unit of y-87 is built by one molecule, in -87 we have to deal with two independent molecules due to intermolecular forces. Figure 2 represents a view of the unit cells of the two allotropes of 87 which have been studied so far. A detailed analysis and modeling of the intermolecular forces in 12 sulfur allotropes using a non-spherical sulfur atom potential yielded a slightly higher lattice energy for y-Sy than for S-Sy [73]. 

Fullernes form a group of carbon allotropes. There are spherical fullerenes nicknamed buckyballs and cylindrical fullerenes known as buckytubes or nanotubes. Fullerenes have yet to display all of their capabilities to scientists. One of the most promising areas of fullerene research involves the creation of nanotubes. Nanotubes are sheets of carbon that are rolled up into cylinders. These cylinders are strong—due to the hexagonal structure of the carbon atoms—and have unique conducting properties. Fullerene nano-technology on the horizon includes the development of faster computer chips, smaller electronic components, and more advanced space-exploration vehicles. 

Another class of carbon allotropes was discovered in 1985 by Harold W. Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O Brien, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley. Soccer-ball-shaped spheres of 60 carbon atoms with formulas like Cgg and C were found in carbon soot and later recognized to be ubiquitous in interstellar clouds. Cg is recognized as the most perfectly spherical known molecule. Because the arrangements of the carbon atoms resemble the architecture of geodesic domes, which were invented by Richard Buckminster Fuller, this class of carbon allotropes came to be cdXXed fullerenes. Kroto, Curl, and Smalley shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for this discovery. 

Thermodynamic Functions of Three Carbon Allotropes [19]. Low temperature heat capacities of three allotropes of carbon are shown in Fig. 4.46. The data were derived from adiabatic calorimetry. Based on the discussion of heat capacities of Sect. 2.3 and the known chemical structure of the allotropes given in Fig. 2.109, the thermal behavior can be easily understood. Fullerene, Cgg, is a small molecule. All strong bonds he in the surface of the almost spherical molecule. The low-temperature heat... 

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