Institute of Physics , 76, Portland Place, London, Thursday September 30th 2004
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Carbon is a unique element and exceptionally diverse in its technological applications, from heavy industry (as an electrode material), to sport, car racing and aviation (carbon fibre reinforcement and carbon in carbon composite brake material), to nuclear reactors (moderator in fission reactors, first wall material in fusion reactors)... and that is just the black stuff!
The man and woman on the street know of the unique value of diamond, and possibly of its extreme hardness, chemical inertness, thermal conductivity. The up and coming class of materials launched initially by the discovery of Buckminsterfullerene and boosted by the discovery of carbon nanotubes could possibly ultimately dominate the applications of carbon. At this meeting there will be an afternoon of talks from several leading UK scientists who will offer their views of the future applications of carbon.
The scientific meeting will be followed by a reception and AGM courtesy of the British Carbon Group. We encourage all our members to come along, listen, meet the Committee and put their views about the future directions of carbon research. Please note that from time to time, our sponsoring professional/scholarly institutions - the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry - are consulted by government on scientific foresight, and this is your opportunity to feed them your views through the British Carbon Group.
This is a _free_ meeting with no registration but in order to help with catering numbers it would be very helpful if anyone wishing to come could signal their intention to do so to M.I.Heggie@sussex.ac.uk as soon as posible but feel free to come along anyway!