Buckyballs Made Possible In Europe

Maybe you are already familiar with new toy that is really fantastic

. It can do unlimited shapes and multiple tasks. You can play and at the same time, you can also use buckyballs for other office purposes.

Do you know that one of its contributors came from Europe, specifically UK? In 1985 a professor named Harry Kroto was working on the possible structures of interstellar carbon molecules. He approached Prof. Curl and Prof. Smallery to use their laser beam equipment to perform lab simulations of carbon chain formation in star systems. A European made the first move to make this kind of unusual toy. During the month of September 1985, the experiment was carried out; not to prove carbon stars could produce the chains but also reveals an amazing serendipitous result and that is the totally unexpected existence of the C60 species. Because of this, these three professors won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their roles in the discovery of the new class of carbon compounds. This C60 are found in nature; hidden in soot and formed by lightning discharges in the atmosphere. That is pretty hard to get.

The atom that they discovered is bounded together into highly symmetrical and hollow polygon structure like a sphere with 60 vertices and 32 faces. 12 of these are pentagon-shaped and 20 of which are hexagons which give it the same geometry as that of a football or soccer. An architect named Richard Buckminster Fuller which the word Bucky came from has a geodesic dome design that is similar to the molecular structure of C60. These unique structures which we know as buckyballs have led to an entirely new branch of chemistry. It was said that C60 was already predicted by Eiji Osawa from Japan and his prediction was published in a Japanese magazine. He made a hypothesis that a full ball shape could exist like he structure of a crinoline molecule which is a subset of a soccer-ball shaped. The magazine in which Osawas idea was published did not reach Europe or America. At least, we can say that the three professors really did a good job. During the year of1991, it was relatively easy to produce gram-sized samples of fullerene powder. It remains as a challenge to the chemists the fullerene purification and to a large extent determines fullerene prices. Fullerene is an unusual reactant in many organic reactions.

There is a belief and excitement that buckyballs sheer strength is important for use in building materials. Buckyballs together with buckytubes may replace silicon as the building blocks for future electronic devices in computers and communication devices according to the considerable belief for the 21st century. For additional information, these buckytubes are strongest materials known which are already finding applications in composite materials. This is now use as surface coatings to improve wear resistance and as components in scientific resistance.

Without Prof. Krotos approach to two other professors, this buckyball probably would not reach to Europe itself.

by: Andy McQueen

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