In this work, we report on the discovery of naturally occurring fullerenes (C[60] to C[400] ) in the Allende and Murchison meteorites and some sediment samples from the 65 million-year-old Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary layer (KTB). Unlike the ...

Fullerene, any of a series of hollow carbon molecules that form either a closed cage ('buckyballs') or a cylinder (carbon 'nanotubes'). The first fullerene was discovered in 1985 by Sir Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley, and Robert F. Curl, Jr., for which the trio won the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

There are many models of fullerene formation. Almost all of them are founded on the statistical approach. In this work the mechanism of transferring of carbon-helium plasma into the condensed state of carbon is described. This conclusion is caused by the generalization of the experimental results of the fullerene synthesis and the thermodynamic estimations considering the cluster charge.

Figure 4.1 shows the helium sales data for the past 20 years along with curves depicting -1 percent, 0 percent, 1 percent, 3 percent, and 5 percent annual growth in helium sales. 2 Although helium sales more than doubled between 1985 and 1995, the rate of increase has varied and appears to be declining. Thus, although helium consumption will ...

The early suggestion in fullerenes research that fullerenes might be produced in flames was soon supported by the observation of polyhedral carbon ions in flames and in 1991 was confirmed by the recovery and identification of fullerenes C60 and C70 from benzene/oxygen flames. Recent research has determined the effects of pressure, carbon/oxygen ratio, temperature and the type and concentration ...

The toxicological effects are manifested through inflammatory response, DNA damage, apoptosis, autophagy and necrosis. Other factors that largely influence the toxicity of carbon nanotubes, graphenes and fullerenes are the concentration, functionalization, dimensional and surface topographical factors. Thus, a better understanding of the ...

The concentration of helium in tungsten fuzz-like nanostructures has been measured by means of thermal desorption spectroscopy. Fuzz was formed on the W surface under intensive plasma irradiation at 1500 K. The helium content was measured first in the as-irradiated sample, and then in a similar sample with the fuzz mechanically scraped from

Although synthetic fullerenes have only been around for a few years, there are thousands of scientific articles dealing with them. This is the first monograph in the field and thus represents a vital source of information summarizing the most important and fundamental aspects of the organic and organometallic chemistry of the fullerenes.The book is logically arranged so that information is ...

Helium (from Greek: ἥλιος, romanized: helios, lit. 'sun') is a chemical element with the symbol He and atomic number 2. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas, the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table. Its boiling point is the lowest among all the elements.Helium is the second lightest and second most abundant element in the observable ...

The atmosphere comprises various distinct gases, the most abundant being nitrogen (~78%), followed by oxygen (~21%). Helium is only present in five parts per million (0.0005%) in the lower atmosphere. Nitrogen and helium have comparable viscosity, but helium has higher thermal conductivity compared to …

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A method for synthesis of carbon nanostructures in a high-frequency arc discharge in the flow of helium (3-4 L/min) is presented. It is shown that the plasma-chemical synthesis of fullerenes and endohedral metal fullerenes (EMFs) can be controlled by changing helium pressure in the chamber. Temperature and electron concentration along the line normal to the discharge axis decrease upon moving ...

The telltale fullerenes containing helium and argon were extracted from sites where the Permian-Triassic boundary layer had been exposed in Japan, China and Hungary. The evidence was not as strong from the Hungary site, but the China and Japan samples bear strong evidence, Becker said.

Effect of diluent helium concentration on fullerenes Cha+C70 yield (a) and C,,&,a ratio (b) for two sets of flame conditions: (0) 37.5 Torr, C/O= 1.00 and 40 cm/s: (0) 20 Ton; C/O= I .04 and 50 cm/s (from chamber surface deposits).

The concentration of helium (per microgram of fullerene) in Stevns Klint (4 × 10 −7 cm 3 /g of fullerene) indicates that the 3 He concentration is some 4× higher than that found in the Sudbury fullerenes (1.1 × 10 −7 cm 3 /g of fullerene).

Helium It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert monatomic gas that heads the noble gas group in the periodic table. Its boiling and melting points are the lowest among the elements and it exists only as a gas except in extreme conditions.

It is obvious from Fig. 3 that the absorption peak areas of higher fullerenes (C n, n > 70) increase with pressure. As shown in Table 2, the peak ratio of fullerenes C 70 /C 60 in the mixture increases with helium pressure and changes from 0.26 at pressure 0.10 MPa to 0.32 at pressure 0.38 MPa. Download : Download full-size image; Fig. 3.

Particular model assumes that fullerenes are forming in helium atmosphere at temperatures above 2000 K only. According to the model, formation rate of carbon clusters and thus, yield of fullerenes depend on the following parameters: (i) concentration of evaporated carbon in the arc column, (ii) velocity of carbon–helium leaving the arc column ...

pH scale. The pH scale (pH) is a numeric scale which is used to define how acidic or basic an aqueous solution is. It commonly ranges between 0 and 14, but can go beyond these values if sufficiently acidic/basic. pH is logarithmically and inversely related to the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution. The pH to H + formula that represents this relation is:

1. Introduction. Since Kroto et al. discovered C 60 by laser vaporizing graphite into a helium stream in September 1985, fullerenes are at the heart of nanotechnology [].Other fullerenes were discovered shortly afterward with more and fewer carbon atoms. Since the discovery of multiwalled carbon nanotubes and single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) in 1991 [2, 3], fullerenes and carbon …

In addition, the close packing of a helium atom and a nitrogen atom inside fullerenes is realized using two stepwise insertion techniques, that is, molecular surgery to synthesize the fullerenes encapsulating a helium atom, followed by nitrogen radio-frequency plasma methods to generate the fullerenes encapsulating both helium and nitrogen atoms.

For instance, terrestrial helium is mostly helium-4 and contains only a small amount of helium-3, while extraterrestrial helium -- the kind found in these fullerenes -- is mostly helium-3. "These things form in carbon stars. That's what's exciting about finding fullerenes as a tracer," Becker said.

Fullerenes (An Overview) Introduction. The 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been won by Harold W. Kroto, Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery in 1985 of a new allotrope of carbon, in which the atoms are arranged in closed shells. The new form was found to have the structure of a truncated icosahedron, and was named ...

In the Earth's atmosphere, the concentration of helium by volume is only 5.2 parts per million. ... When chemical derivatives of these fullerenes are formed, the helium stays inside. If helium-3 is used, it can be readily observed by helium NMR spectroscopy. Many fullerenes containing helium …

(en) Helium is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert monatomic chemical element, that heads the noble gas series in the periodic table and whose atomic number is 2. Its boiling and melting points are the lowest among the elements and it exists only as a gas except in extreme conditions .

A peak in the helium NMR spectrum of 3He labeled C70 is assigned to molecules containing two helium atoms. The concentration of the dihelium species is about 1/20th that of molecules containing a single helium, and the helium shift of this new species is 0.014 ppm (5.6 Hz) downfield from the resonance for molecules containing one helium. Mass spectrometry confirms the …

Fullerenes (C60 and C70) in the Sudbury impact structure contain trapped helium with a 3He/4He ratio of 5.5 × 10−4 to 5.9 × 10−4. The 3He/4He ratio exceeds the accepted solar wind value by 20 to 30 percent and is higher by an order of magnitude than the maximum reported mantle value. Terrestrial nuclear reactions or cosmic-ray bombardment are not sufficient to generate such a high ratio.

Fullerenes C60 derivatized with two or more solubilizing side chains have also been active, when tested in lymphocyte CEM cell cultures infected with HIV-1 and HIV-2 (Bosi et al 2003).Although derivatization of fullerenes with pyrrolidinium nitrogen enhances their solubility, the practical use of this method is limited by the generation of different isomers, whose separation is difficult.

Researchers found unusual isotopes of helium trapped in this "cage" that indicate they came from outer space. These gas-laden fullerenes were formed outside the Solar System, and their concentration in the sedimentary layer at the boundary of the Permian and Triassic periods means they were delivered by comets or asteroids.

The best-known organic nanoparticles include carbon nanotubes and fullerenes, 174 dendrimers, 175 polyelectrolyte complexes in natural or synthetic forms, 176 ... (such as helium) and with a low thermal ... In ITC, the calorimeter maintains a constant temperature, and the concentration of an additional material added to the cells is ...

For instance, terrestrial helium is mostly helium-4 and contains only a small amount of helium-3, while extraterrestrial helium – the kind found in these fullerenes – is mostly helium-3. "These things form in carbon stars. That's what's exciting about finding fullerenes as a tracer," Becker said.

Helium (He) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert monatomic chemical element that heads the noble gas group in the periodic table and whose atomic number is 2. Its boiling and melting points are the lowest among the elements and it exists only as a gas except in extreme conditions.. An unknown yellow spectral line signature in light was first observed from a solar eclipse in ...