A fullerene molecule smaller than the buckyball makes its debut, while a new separation technique offers a practical way to study larger carbon molecules.
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Further Readings:
1990. Making scads of molecular soccer balls. Science News 138(Oct. 13):238.
Amato, I. 1990. Buckyballs get their first major physical. Science News 138(Dec. 8):357.
Curl, R.F., and R.E. Smalley. 1991. Fullerenes. Scientific American 265(October):54.
Peterson, I. 1985. Molecular carbon: Playing ‘buckyball.’ Science News 128(Nov. 23):325.
Taubes, G. 1991. The disputed birth of buckyballs. Science 253(Sept. 27):1476.
Wu, C. 1996. Buckyballs bounce into Nobel history. Science News 150(Oct. 19):247.
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John M. Alford
TDA Research, Inc.
12345 W. 52nd Avenue
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033John H. Weaver
University of Minnesota
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
151 Amundson Hall
421 Washington Avenue, S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455Alex Zettl
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Physics
Materials Science Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
366 LeConte Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
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