C60+ in space – a 28-year detective story about the Diffuse Interstellar Bands – Part 5
It seems likely that C60+ will act as a stable site for a wide variety of adducts and that these entities will contribute to the Diffuse Interstellar Bands. John Maier's group in Basel is looking for species like C60(Fe)+.
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The early (mid 1990s) work on the electronic spectroscopy was carried out by John Maier's group, trapping C60+ in a neon matrix in this apparatus.
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John Maier's team at the University of Basel solved the riddle of C60+ in 2015. In this brief view Colin Byfleet looks at the unique apparatus used in John's work.
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The presentation the solution to this long-standing puzzle occurred at a most serendipitous moment. John Maier, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel reveals the momentous details.
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John Maier, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel, describes the journey from the prediction of C60+ in 1987, through tentative assignment of its electronic spectrum by Radioastronomy, measurement in a neon-matrix and finally, in....
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