Transcript for Jim Heath Interview: How can C60 be useful?

C60 has interesting electronic properties that has it as a...

...key component in certain light-harvesting polymers and things like that.

People have used it – I don’t know how successful they’ve been –

but they’ve used it in modified forms as drugs,

that are probably still in trials, I know there’s nothing commercial out there yet.

And nanotubes which are cousins of C60 – C60 is the ball,

graphite sort of rolled up into a ball –

but if you roll up this carpet into a tube, that’s a nanotube.

Those have a host of applications, from...

...electronic field emitters for flat panel displays to terrific conductors,

materials with unusual strengths and lightweights and other applications.