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NEW NANOTECHNOLOGY FROM CARBON |
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Richard E. Smalley, Ph.D. |
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| Richard E. Smalley, Ph.D., 1996 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and Gene and Norman Hackerman professor of chemistry at Rice University, will give a special lecture at Science2001. Dr. Smalley is widely known for the discovery and characterization of C60 (Buckminsterfullerene), a soccer ball-shaped molecule that, together with other fullerenes like C70, now constitutes the third elemental form of carbon (after graphite and diamond). His group has been the first to generate fullerenes with metals trapped on the inside. Dr. Smalley's research is now focused on the production of continuous carbon fibers, which are essentially giant single-fullerene molecules. Just a few nanometers wide, but many centimeters long, these fullerene fibers are expected to be the strongest fibers ever made--100 times stronger than steel. | |
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