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Transcript for Jim Heath Interview: What is a buckyball?
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The discovery of C60 was an interesting story. |
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We were trying to basically emulate the surface of a carbon star... |
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...and we were vaporizing carbon in an environment of other gases... |
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...when we found that this one molecule of carbon didn’t react with these gases. |
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Now, there’s only two forms of carbon that were known at the time: diamond and graphite, |
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and it’s hard to have 60 atoms of either one of those, and not have it react, |
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because they have edges and the edges of these... |
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...structures will react with the molecules that we had present. |
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C60 is not that – it’s curved up, it’s a... |
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...European football or an American Soccer ball, it has no edges. |
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So it's a round carbon. |
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The interesting thing about it is that it really illustrated that if you could begin to... |
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...control matter at the dimensions of a few atoms, |
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it really did new and different and unusual things. |
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So C60 is certainly a very interesting molecule, but the whole class of fullerenes, |
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and class of other nanomaterials that came out of that kind of a study... |
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...turned out to be full of very rich science. |