Plenary Speaker Richard E. Smalley to Discuss Commercially Available Buckytubes
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Plenary Speaker Richard E. Smalley to Discuss Commercially Available Buckytubes Distinguished recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Richard E. Smalley of Rice University will deliver the plenary talk at the 1998 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting in Boston on November 30, at 6:00 p.m. in Salon E of the Boston Marriott. In his talk entitled, "Buckytubes: New Materials and New Devices from Carbon," Smalley will address the tubular extensions of fullerenes now available commercially in small quantities. According to Smalley, in short lengths buckytubes are expected to be the most rigid of beams and effectively unbreakable even when bent in half. He said, "Grown in lon
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