an agilent 1100 variable wavelength detector see fig1 the detector was configured at a wavelength of 330 nm and a peak width of gt 0 1 min the iso critical separation method involved a 5 u03bcl injection onto a cosmosil buckyprep analytical column 25 cm u00d7 4 6 mm id 5 u03bcm with toluene as the mobile phase the flow rate of the mobile phase was set at 1 ml min with a run time of 20 minutes retention time for the c 60 was u02dc 8 minutes the purity of c 60 was also verified using xrd analysis see fig1 a 1 d and 10 the xrd spectrum was obtained on 3 samples the xrd analysis was performed on c 60 bulk powder the nano sized c 60 and the micro sized c 60 all samples were run in a siemens d5000 u03b8 u03b8 diffractometer using cu radiation at 40 kv 30 ma scans were run over the range of 50 to 800 with a step size of 0 020 for the powder sample the scan time was 10 hours while the filter samples had to be run for 36 hours each fig1 a 1 d show the phase identification of c 60 buckminster fullerene bulk powder using x ray diffraction analysis the mercer cascade impactor analysis was very helpful during the early stages of the experiments while optimizing the furnace temperature and location during the early stages of testing the mercer cascade impactor samples were collected.