Illustration of the C60 (IMAGE)

The University of Hong Kong

Illustration of the C60

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Solar system illustration of the C60 and some of its highly positively charged cations, representing theoretically calculated normal modes vibration motions and relative molecular sizes (volumes). C6010+, the little bucky, is the only charged fullerene inherited from the symmetry of C60. The bottom right corner is the theoretically predicated IR fingerprint of this exotic species (brown profile), overlapped onto the astronomically observed emission spectrum of Tc1 planetary nebula within the same wavelength region.

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SeyedAbdolreza Sadjadi and Quentin Andrew Parker

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