The Fullerene Page

Carbon is one of the most fascinating of all materials. It is the basis of all life and of all organic chemistry. One of its forms, diamond, is the hardest of all known materials and has the highest thermal conductivity. The discovery of C60 in 1985 at the Rice University in Houston and the subsequent discovery of other forms of buckeyballs and of carbon nanotubes have opened the door to a vast new range of carbon-based materials with some extremely useful properties.

The Fullerene Page is designed to make it easier for materials researchers and others to locate the the most useful (and still current) resources about fullerenes and carbon nanotubes on the internet. If you would like to suggest any additions, please send an e-mail to upwardthrust@oocities.com.

GOVERNMENT

R&D Updates - Unearthing Buckeyballs - the first of two articles on this page posted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Includes a videoclip. It discusses the discovery of naturally occurring fullerene in rock from Russia and then from rock from Colorado. The second artle is about the use of a neutron beam to determine the size of C60 molecules.

ACADEMIA

Fullerene Research in the Cross Group - this group at the Yale University Department of Chemistry has put He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe and tritium and nitrogen atoms, as well as He2, Ne2 inside a variety of fullerenes.

Information on Carbon Nanotubes - by David Tomanek Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at Michigan State University. This site provides two short movies. His main research interests are to understand fundamental materials properties using advanced numerical techniques. Contains a link to Nanotube-99, a July 1999 international conference.

Laboratory for the Study of Novel Carbon Materials - located in the physics department at Wahsington University in St. Louis.

The Nanotube Site - a list of links by David Tomanek at Michigan State University.

Richard E. Smalley Home Page - posted by Professor Smalley's research laboratory at Rice University. Professors Smalley is best known for his role in the discovery of C60 in 1985.

University of Sussex Fullerene Group Homepage - last updated in mid-1998 (as of October, 1999).

INDUSTRY

CarboLex Inc. - at the University of Kentucky is a supplier of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Established in 1998 for the purpose of using its production technique to produce high quality single-walled carbon nanotubes. Ordering can be done online.

Dynamic Enterprises Ltd - supplies high purity fullerenes to research laboratories and industry. The UK company diversified into the educational market with the Buckybox, a teaching package which enables teachers and students to study and to experiment with these fascinating "balls of carbon".

Southern Chemical Group, LLC - a very brief web site contains price list for ordering fullerenes by phone or fax. The company is based in Georgia (USA).

ARTICLES, PUBLICATIONS, ETC.

Abstracts of recent papers on Fullerene Research - lots of articles but, unfortunately, last updated in 1994 (as of October, 1999).

Applying Solar Energy to the Production of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes - a brief 1998 article by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France.

Buckeyballs: Making Full Use of Fullerenes - a 1998 introductory article by Hank Hogan from High Technology Careers Magazine.

Carbon Nanotubes - a four page introduction by NEC Corporation, at whose laboratory these tubes were originally discovered.

From Fullerenes to Nanotubes - a 1996 article, authors include Richard E. Smalley. A method has been found which produces single-walled carbon nanotubes in high yield.

Fullerenes - an introduction to this material by Kim Allen at the University of California at San Diego.

Fullerene Structure Library - unfortunately this site was last updated in 1997 (as of October, 1999).

Fullerenes World - provides introductory information about fullerenes by Sergei V. Kozyrev at the Center for Fullerenes and Nanostructures in Russia.

Namitech - a site about nanotubes research in Spain. Contains a list of publications.

Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes - a book which is being reprinted in 1999. This website contains a brief introduction and the table of contents.

World's Smallest Test Tubes - a 1996 news release by researchers from three institutions about the use of carbon nanotubes to conduct chemical reations.

NT99 Discussion Forum - a chronoligical list of good questions and (not quite as good) answers from Nanotube-99.

EVENTS

Nanotube-99 - an international conference about nanotubes held in July, 1999 in Michigan.