Mitsubishi Corp. to sponsor fullerene workshop

from the sooty-tubes-for-profit dept.
Bryan Hall writes "A press release on yahoo news reports that Mitsubishi Corp. is sponsoring an international meeting in Tokyo to discuss the state-of-the-art technology and strategies for commercializing fullerene nanotubes. The Mitsubishi International Fullerene Workshop 2001, Feb. 20-21, will feature keynote speeches from Nobel Prize winners and fullerene co-discoverers Richard E. Smalley and Sir Harold W. Kroto. Donald R. Huffman, the University of Arizona co-inventor of the method for producing commercial quantities of fullerenes, will chair a discussion on super-hard carbon material. Other sessions will include panel discussions and lectures on applied research and development." See the symposium website.