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Dr. Ragone was the Head of Metallurgy responsible for fuel development with me acting independently to sort out the science of soot. Rosalind E. Franklin, best known for her work on x-ray diffraction images of DNA, pointed the way to determine how the structure and properties of quasi-crystalline carbon were dependent on the temperature, gas composition, total flow rate, and surface area of the fluidized bed reactor in which they were deposited. The quasi-crystalline structure turned out to be remarkable. It can be manipulated through processing to get anything you like. In the limit, perhaps even diamond.
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Bokros, J. (2023). Origin and Characterization of Medical Carbons. In: Heart of Carbon . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17933-4_3
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