It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.

We have a really good seventh-grade class. Even though they're small, their soccer skills are so developed that there isn't that safety issue as much as there was before.

After a few years of intensive research, we found a way to use a pulsed laser directed into a nozzle to vaporize any material, allowing for the first time the atoms of any element in the periodic table to be produced cold in a supersonic beam.

If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.

Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.