Nanocarbons Division: The Past, The Present, The Future. (December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rotkin, Slava V.
• Is Part Of: Electrochemical Society Interface. Volume 28:Number 4(2019)
• Page Start: 51
• Page End: 52
• Publication Date: 2019-12
• DOI: 10.1149/2.F08194IF
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1064-8208

Abstract

Abstract : The Nanocarbons (NANO) Division is the youngest in The Electrochemical Society. Its history began with the first symposium on porphyrins and fullerene science, organized in early 1990s by Karl Kadish, Founding Chair of the Division. It was the time of the "gold rush" for carbon clusters: in 1991 the fullerene (a.k.a. buckyball) was named "The Molecule of the Year" and attracted a lot of attention in fundamental and applied science. In 1993 the Fullerenes Group was founded, shortly after the invention of CVD synthesis of buckyballs—the production method which allowed easy access to this new allotrope of carbon. The long journey into the world of nanomaterials, with flat or curved surfaces, made of pure carbon, with hexagonal lattice similar to what Buckminster Fuller used for his geodomes, had begun.