{"id":11463,"date":"2012-08-02T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/?p=11463"},"modified":"2012-08-06T10:03:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T14:03:17","slug":"jasti-carbon-nanohoop-research-featured-in-ce-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/2012\/08\/02\/jasti-carbon-nanohoop-research-featured-in-ce-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasti Carbon Nanohoop Research Featured in C&E News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Professor Ramesh Jasti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a July 19 article<\/a>, C&E News reported on the work of Professor Ramesh Jasti<\/a> and his Group<\/a> on carbon nano hoops. Cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs) or nanohoops are made from para-linked benzene rings. Stacking of CPPs could be the basis for preparing useful quantities of pure carbon nanotubes. However,\u00a0CPPs are so \u00a0difficult to make that they are currently sold commercially for about $100 per milligram. \u00a0In a remarkable achievement, the Jasti Group\u00a0have developed a new catalytic method that boosts the yields of eight- and 10-unit nanohoops by two orders of magnitude. \u00a0As reported in C&E News, this work has implications for nanoelectronics because armchair nanotubes, the type of carbon nanotubes that would be made by nanohoop stacking, are highly prized as conductive nanowires.<\/p>\n

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Ramesh Jasti joined the BU faculty in 2009. \u00a0The reported work is part of his laboratories goal of\u00a0utilizing organic synthesis to probe the physics and theory of carbon nanostructures, with the ultimate goal of developing new applications in nanotechnology.\u00a0 Prior to coming to BU, he was one of the first postdoctoral fellows at the Molecular Foundry\u2014a US Department of Energy nanoscience facility at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.\u00a0 As a highly interdisciplinary scientist, Professor Jasti also has appointments in the Materials Science and Engineering Division<\/a>, as well as the Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In a July 19 article, C&E News reported on the work of Professor Ramesh Jasti and his Group on carbon nano hoops. Cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs) or nanohoops are made from para-linked benzene rings. Stacking of CPPs could be the basis for preparing useful quantities of pure carbon nanotubes. However,\u00a0CPPs are so \u00a0difficult to make that they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[997,1508,150],"tags":[4051,9084,4487,9087],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11486,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions\/11486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}