Fullerene International Corporation
Fullerene International Corporation (FIC) combines the capabilities of partners Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), Materials and Electrochemical Research Corporation (MER) and RCT in a joint venture to commercialize fullerene materials. MC, the giant trading company, brings business development and market incubation to FIC. MER, a high technology development company in Tucson, provides production, production scale-up, application development, technical support and patents to the new company. RCT contributes dominant composition-of-matter and method-of-production patents.
Mitsubishi purchased FIC from its partners in 2007.
Inventors (method of producing fullerenes)
Donald Huffman, Ph.D., University of Arizona and Wolfgang Krächmer, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany