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Date: February 22, 2001, 14:00 - 16:30 Place: Faculty of Science Chemistry Bldg. 5F Lecture Hall At Hongo Campus of The University of Tokyo Hongo 7-3-1, bunkyo-ku, Tokyo Refer to maps below Getting to the Hongo Campus Faculty of Science Chemisty Bldg. At Hongo Campus Entrance Fee: Free (Preregistration is neccesary) |
Program
14:00-15:00 Lecture by Professor Richard
E. Smalley
"Buckytubes! New materials and new devices
from carbon"
15:00-16:30 Panel Discussion
Chairman: Professor Shigeo Maruyama (The University of Tokyo)
| Panelists: | Professor Yoji Achiba (Tokyo Metropolitan
University) Professor Riichiro Saito (The University of Electro-Communications) Dr. Masako Yudasaka (ICORP-JST) |
Abstract
Buckytubes! New Nanotechnology from Carbon
Professor Richard E. Smalley, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology,
Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
The tubular extension of the fullerenes popularly
known as "Buckytubes" are now available
commercially in small quantities. Early measurements
indicate that these tubes behave as coherent
quantum wires. In short lengths they are
expected to be the most rigid of all possible
beams and effectively unbreakable even when
bent in half. Grown in long ropes they are
expected to form the strongest fiber ever
made, with a tensile strength approximately
100 times stronger than steel at only one-sixth
the weight. Short lengths derivitized at
the ends will constitute a new branch of
organic chemistry. These buckytubes may bring
into reality old dreams of molecular electronics,
and have application in virtually all technologies
where electrons flow. Assembled in closest-packed
crystalline arrays these tubes will serve
as "seed crystals" for the direct,
continuous growth of super-strong, light
weight membranes, plates, tubes, and other
structures made entirely out of carbon.
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