34 results found for university-of-sussex

A laboratory demonstration of Carbon Dioxide's effect of global warming.

Jonathan shows how a sheet of graphite (hexagons) can be modified to make closed cages and tubes.  In real life the smallest of these tubes are only 1/100,000,000 meter in diameter - a nanometer (nm) - hence they are called nanotubes.  Depending on....

Some of the subtleties of the structures found in carbon nanotubes.

Video by Hugh Fox

Jonathan Hare describes the novel chemistry of the C60 molecule.

This short video shows one of the demonstrations for the Physics SEPNet exhibition - "Who will keep the lights on?" which travelled around the southern UK from February 2009.  We describe and explain the electrical generator demonstration which Jona....

Sussex University has always supported unusual, interdisciplinary and innovative faculties. A good example of this was the Nitrogen Fixation Centre. Jeff Leigh was part of this exceptional work who's aim was to discover how nature uses nitrogen to cr....

Jonathan describes a smaller 'buckyball' with its inherent differences from C60.

How the structures of fullerene molecules obey the rules of mathematics discovered long ago by Euler.

Some intimate details of this novel new material.

Jonathan explains what graphene is and how it fits into the revolution in carbon science.

Mark Hindmarch talks about our understanding of how we explain the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang.