C60 extraction
Kraetschmer, Lamb, Fostiropoulos and Huffman.
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One of the most amazing images of the 20th Century, crystals of elemental carbon!
Sir Harry Kroto
The Sussex effort
Sir Harry Kroto's Nobel lecture (PDF, 1.25MB).
Sir Harry Kroto's Nobel biography.
Sir Harry Kroto, "Jonathan Hare extracted a C60/C70 mixture five days prior to the faxed manuscript of the great paper by Kraetschmer, Lamb, Fostiropoulos and Huffman arriving on my desk at Sussex!"
"It might be noted that the authors of this paper were given a preliminary copy of our paper before the work was completed and prior to the finished work (ie, with details of complete chromatograhic separation and the complete nmr spectrum above) being submitted."
