Title:	Multi-shell Polyhedral Clusters
Authors:	Vasile Diudea, Mircea
Keywords:	biology
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing AG
Description:	Nanoworld is the world seen at the size of 10 9 m; searching matter at this depth started since 1970 when Eiji Osawa had enounced the conjecture that the truncated icosahedron could be a molecule, later called C60. Then, in 1985, Kroto, Curl, and Smalley got spectral evidence that C60, which shows a single peak in 13C-NMR, is a real molecule. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1995 for this historical discovery. Macroscopic synthesis of C60 came later, in 1990, by the work of Kraetschmer and collaborators. Iijima reported in 1991 the synthesis of nanotubes; the period after these pioneering discoveries is commonly called the “Nanoera.” Development of computers and technology enabled researchers and industry to go further in research and applications, promoting an explosive development of electronics, optoelectronics, telecommunications, education, etc. Thereafter, the most important event (for the actual book) was the recognition of quasi-crystals as ordered, nonperiodic matter, the class to which the multi-shell clusters belong. Dan Shehtman was the Noble Prize winner for these results in 2011...then the book was started to be written...
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/75437
ISBN:	978-3-319-64123-2
Appears in Collections:	Chemistry

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