Robert C. Haddon

Robert Cort Haddon (born March 12, 1943 in Sheffield ) is an Australian solid-state physicist .

Haddon graduated from the University of Melbourne and received his PhD in organic chemistry from Pennsylvania State University in 1971 . He then worked at the Australian National University and from 1976 at Bell Laboratories . In 1997 he became professor of chemistry and physics at the University of Kentucky and in 1998 became director of the NSF Advanced Carbon Materials Center. In 2000 he became Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside .

He founded the company CarboLex for the production of carbon nanotubes with one wall (Singe-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, SWNT) and in 1998 the company Carbo Solutions. He was one of the discoverers of superconductivity in fullerenes doped with potassium , with a transition temperature of 18 degrees Kelvin.

In 2008, Haddon received the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials for the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in non-oxide systems (laudation). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts

• with J. Chen u. a .: Solution properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes , Science, Volume 282, 1998, pp. 95-98
• with S. Niyogi u. a .: Chemistry of single-walled carbon nanotubes , Accounts of Chemical Research, Volume 35, 2002, pp. 1105-1113
• with AF Hebard u. a .: Conducting films of C60 and C70 by alkali-metal doping , Nature, Volume 350, 1991, p. 320
• with S. Niyogi u. a .: Solution properties of graphite and graphene , Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 128, 2006, pp. 7720-7721

Web links

• Website at the University of California, Riverside
• McGroddy Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dates of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ↑ Arthur F. Hebard , Haddon et al. a .: Potassium-doped c60, Nature, Volume 350, 1991, pp. 600-601