ROBERT C HADDON
Robert Cort Haddon grew up in Longford, Tasmania. He obtained the B Sc(Hon) degree at Melbourne University in 1966, and an organic chemistry Ph D degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1971. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas during the period 1972-3, after which he took up a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship at the Australian National University. In 1976 he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories; during the period 1978 to 1990 he was a member of the Chemical Physics Research Department, before assuming a position in the Materials Chemistry Research Department at AT&T (Lucent Technologies) Bell Laboratories as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Kentucky, and in 1998 he became Director of the Advanced Carbon Materials Center (NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center). In 1998 he co-founded CarboLex, Inc, a company that produces and sells single-walled carbon nanotubes. In 1999, he founded Carbon Solutions, Inc, a company that is focused on the chemical processing and dissolution of carbon materials for advanced applications.
In 2000, he was appointed Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical & Environmental Engineering and Director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the University of California at Riverside (UCR); in 2002, the scope of CNSE was expanded to include the Center for Nanoscale Innovation for Defense which was formed as a multicampus initiative between UCR, UCSB and UCLA.
His research interests have been directed toward the electronic structure and properties of molecules and materials, with particular emphasis on transport, magnetism, superconductivity, device fabrication, nanotechnology, and the discovery of new classes of electronic materials. In collaboration with colleagues at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he discovered the alkali metal fullerides and their conductivity properties and the occurrence of superconductivity in the A3C60 compounds (A=K,Rb). He was named 1991 Person of the Year by Superconductor Week, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society “For work on organic electronic materials, including the prediction and discovery of superconductivity in alkali-metal-doped carbon-60.”
His research group has now turned their attention to the study of radical conductors and carbon nanotubes. In 1998 they prepared the first soluble single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), allowing the study of carbon metals and semiconductors in solution. Both ionic and covalent solution phase chemistry were demonstrated, with concomitant modulation of the electronic band structure. In 1999 they synthesized and characterized the first phenalenyl-based neutral radical molecular conductors.
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Email: robert.haddon@ucr.edu
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Robert Cort Haddon grew up in Longford, Tasmania. He obtained the B Sc(Hon) degree at Melbourne University in 1966, and an organic chemistry Ph D degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1971. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas during the period 1972-3, after which he took up a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship at the Australian National University. In 1976 he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories; during the period 1978 to 1990 he was a member of the Chemical Physics Research Department, before assuming a position in the Materials Chemistry Research Department at AT&T (Lucent Technologies) Bell Laboratories as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Kentucky, and in 1998 he became Director of the Advanced Carbon Materials Center (NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center). In 1998 he co-founded CarboLex, Inc, a company that produces and sells single-walled carbon nanotubes. In 1999, he founded Carbon Solutions, Inc, a company that is focused on the chemical processing and dissolution of carbon materials for advanced applications.
In 2000, he was appointed Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical & Environmental Engineering and Director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the University of California at Riverside (UCR); in 2002, the scope of CNSE was expanded to include the Center for Nanoscale Innovation for Defense which was formed as a multicampus initiative between UCR, UCSB and UCLA.
His research interests have been directed toward the electronic structure and properties of molecules and materials, with particular emphasis on transport, magnetism, superconductivity, device fabrication, nanotechnology, and the discovery of new classes of electronic materials. In collaboration with colleagues at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he discovered the alkali metal fullerides and their conductivity properties and the occurrence of superconductivity in the A3C60 compounds (A=K,Rb). He was named 1991 Person of the Year by Superconductor Week, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society “For work on organic electronic materials, including the prediction and discovery of superconductivity in alkali-metal-doped carbon-60.”
His research group has now turned their attention to the study of radical conductors and carbon nanotubes. In 1998 they prepared the first soluble single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), allowing the study of carbon metals and semiconductors in solution. Both ionic and covalent solution phase chemistry were demonstrated, with concomitant modulation of the electronic band structure. In 1999 they synthesized and characterized the first phenalenyl-based neutral radical molecular conductors.
WWW: Research
Email: robert.haddon@ucr.edu
Extension: 2044