Nanotechnology and the future of oil and gas

摘要

Believing only what you can see often leads to missed opportunities. As the upstream industry moves further into the 21st century, innovation and anomaly continue to play a major role in developing newer technologies that inevitably expand the recoverable resource window. Rice University in Houston is credited with developing the first "nanomolecule," Carbon 60 (C60), in 1985. In 1996, Dr. Richard Smalley and Dr. Robert Curl were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery. After Smalley died in 2005, Rice University renamed its nanocenter. The Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, which is devoted to the development of new innovations on the nanometer scale.