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化学领域中的一场革命正在美国亚利桑那州塔松市的一座由煤矿建筑改建的小房间里发生着。这里是世界上第一家生产一种最新发现的称作“巴基球”神奇材料的工厂。这种材料具有如此异常的发展前景,以至于来自各地的化学家和物理学家们不惜以昂贵的价格竟相购卖,每克1200美元,几乎是黄金价格的100倍。为什么?因为这种材料不是人们一般概念中的炭灰,而是一种具有独特碳原子排列结构的新材料。 1990年9月,美国、德国的几位科学家在《自然》杂志上发表了一篇完整论文,详细地论述了他们制造C_(60)的方法。这时,科学家已经感觉到一个重大的突破正在发生。许多著名的科学家和研究机构都将他们的方向转向C_(60)领域。IBM公司的一位科学家通过核磁共振、拉曼光谱、红外光谱及扫描隧道显微镜照片证实了C_(60)的存在形状和性质。1991年加州大学伯克利分校的霍金斯(Joel Hawkins)第一次拍摄了C_(60)
A revolution in chemistry is taking place in a small, converted, coal-mining unit in Tasman, Arizona. This is the first factory in the world to produce one of the latest discoveries called the “Buckyball” magical material. This material has such unusual development prospects that chemists and physicists from all over the world are willing to buy and sell at an expensive price of almost $ 1,200 per gram, which is almost 100 times the price of gold. Why? Because this material is not a charcoal in the general concept of people, but a new material with a unique arrangement of carbon atoms. In September 1990, several scientists from the United States and Germany published a complete essay in Nature and discussed in detail their method of manufacturing C_ (60). At this time, scientists have felt a major breakthrough is taking place. Many well-known scientists and research institutes have turned their attention to the C_ (60) field. A scientist at IBM confirmed the shape and properties of C_ (60) by NMR, Raman spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy. In 1991, Joel Hawkins of the University of California, Berkeley, first shot C_ (60)