Editing Richard Smalley (section)

===Nanotechnology===
Following nearly a decade's worth of research into the formation of alternate fullerene compounds (e.g. C<sub>28</sub>, C<sub>70</sub>), as well as the synthesis of endohedral [[metallofullerenes]] (M@C<sub>60</sub>), reports of the identification of [[carbon nanotube]] structures led Smalley to begin investigating their iron-catalyzed synthesis.<ref name="Ghosh">{{cite book|last1=Ghosh|first1=Pallab|title=Colloid and interface science.|date=2009|publisher=Phi Learning|location=[S.l.]|isbn=978-81-203-3857-9|page=410|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5j3jt06Fcs8C&pg=PA410}}</ref>

As a consequence of this research, Smalley was able to persuade the administration of Rice University, under then-president [[S. Malcolm Gillis|Malcolm Gillis]], to create Rice's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) focusing on any aspect of [[molecular nanotechnology]].<ref name="Death">{{cite news|last1=Boyd|first1=Jade|title=Nanotech pioneer, Nobel laureate Richard Smalley dead at 62|url=http://news.rice.edu/2005/10/28/nanotech-pioneer-nobel-laureate-richard-smalley-dead-at-62/|access-date=July 18, 2016|work=Rice University News and Media|date=October 28, 2005}}</ref><ref name="Boyd">{{cite news|last1=Boyd|first1=Jade|title=Rice remembers Nobel laureate Richard Smalley|url=http://news.rice.edu/2005/11/03/rice-remembers-nobel-laureate-richard-smalley/|access-date=July 18, 2016|work=Rice University News and Media|date=November 3, 2005|archive-date=April 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418204537/http://news.rice.edu/2005/11/03/rice-remembers-nobel-laureate-richard-smalley/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Almond">{{cite news|last1=Almond|first1=B. J.|title=In memoriam: President Emeritus Malcolm Gillis|url=http://news.rice.edu/2015/10/04/malcolm-gillis-rices-sixth-president-dies-of-cancer/|access-date=July 18, 2016|work=Rice University News and Media|date=October 4, 2015|archive-date=November 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107111033/http://news.rice.edu/2015/10/04/malcolm-gillis-rices-sixth-president-dies-of-cancer/|url-status=dead}}</ref>  It was renamed The Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology after Smalley's death in 2005,<ref name="InterNano">{{cite news|title=The Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology|url=http://www.internano.org/node/1522|access-date=July 18, 2016|work=InterNano|archive-date=July 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701190358/http://internano.org/node/1522|url-status=dead}}</ref> and has since merged with the Rice Quantum Institute, becoming the Smalley-Curl Institute (SCI) in 2015.<ref name="Smalley-Curl">{{cite news|last1=Boyd|first1=Jade|title=Rice merges two institutes to form Smalley-Curl Institute|url=http://news.rice.edu/2015/05/22/rice-merges-two-institutes-to-form-smalley-curl-institute/|access-date=July 18, 2016|work=Rice University News and Media|date=May 22, 2015|archive-date=October 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001053056/http://news.rice.edu/2015/05/22/rice-merges-two-institutes-to-form-smalley-curl-institute/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Smalley's latest research was focused on carbon nanotubes, specifically focusing on the [[chemical synthesis]] side of nanotube research. He is well known for his group's invention of the high-pressure [[carbon monoxide]] (HiPco) method of producing large batches of high-quality nanotubes.<ref name="Harris">{{cite book|last1=Harris|first1=Peter J. F.|title=Carbon nanotubes and related structures : new materials for the twenty-first century|date=2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0-521-00533-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UfBXDPdrAjUC&pg=PA40}}</ref> Smalley spun off his work into a company, Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. and associated [[nanotechnology|nanotechnologies]].<ref name="Sparks">{{cite book|last1=Sparks|first1=Sherron|title=Nanotechnology : business applications and commercialization|date=2012|publisher=CRC Press|location=Boca Raton, FL|isbn=978-1-4398-4521-9|pages=1–2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2G_RBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|access-date=July 18, 2016}}</ref>

Smalley and his lab worked solely in this area of study and nothing else for approximately 10 years, up until the end of his life. His research lab carried the slogan "If it ain't tubes, we don't do it" proudly.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Halford |first=Bethany |date=October 9, 2006 |title=THE WORLD ACCORDING TO RICK: Richard Smalley left his mark on science by laying the foundation for nanotechnology as we know it, then he tried to save the world |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-v084n041.p013 |journal=Chemical & Engineering News Archive |language=en |volume=84 |issue=41 |pages=13–19 |doi=10.1021/cen-v084n041.p013 |issn=0009-2347}}</ref>