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Harry C. Dorn is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States, focusing primarily on materials science and chemistry. Their research encompasses various subfields, including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, pathology and forensic medicine, and surgery.

Their recent publications reflect a deep engagement with fullerene chemistry and applications, as well as graphene research and carbon-based materials. Key topics covered in their work include:

  • Fullerene Chemistry and Applications
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Anesthesia and Pain Management

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Steven Stevenson
  • Xiaoyang Liu
  • Rong Huang
  • Kevin Cover
  • Emmanuel Bourret

Harry C. Dorn has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Nanoscale
  • ACS Applied Bio Materials
  • Chemical Communications

Highlighted recent papers include:

  • Semiconducting and Metallic [5,5] Fullertube Nanowires: Characterization of Pristine D5h(1)-C90 and D5d(1)-C100 (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Gigantic C120 Fullertubes: Prediction and Experimental Evidence for Isomerically Purified Metallic [5,5] C120-D5d(1) and Nonmetallic [10,0] C120-D5h(10766) (2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Colossal C130 Fullertubes: Soluble [5,5] C130-D5h(1) Pristine Molecules with 70 Nanotube Carbons and Two 30-Atom Hemifullerene End-caps (2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Metamagnetic transition and a loss of magnetic hysteresis caused by electron trapping in monolayers of single-molecule magnet Tb2@C79N (2022, Nanoscale)
  • Amine Functionalized Trimetallic Nitride Endohedral Fullerenes: A Class of Nanoparticle to Tackle Low Back/Leg Pain (2022, ACS Applied Bio Materials)

Best Publications

  • Small-bandgap endohedral metallofullerenes in high yield and purity

    S. Stevenson;G. Rice;T. Glass;K. Harich

  • Bond lengths in free molecules of buckminsterfullerene, c60, from gas-phase electron diffraction.

    Kenneth Hedberg;Lise Hedberg;Donald S. Bethune;C. A. Brown

  • A stable non-classical metallofullerene family

    S. Stevenson;P. W. Fowler;T. Heine;J. C. Duchamp

  • C60 rotation in the solid state: dynamics of a faceted spherical top.

    Robert D. Johnson;Costantino S. Yannoni;Harry C. Dorn;Jesse R. Salem

  • Isolation and Structural Characterization of the Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C78

    Marilyn M. Olmstead;Ana de Bettencourt-Dias;James C. Duchamp;Steven Stevenson

  • In vitro and in vivo imaging studies of a new endohedral metallofullerene nanoparticle.

    Panos P Fatouros;Frank D Corwin;Zhi-Jian Chen;William C Broaddus

  • Sc3N@C68: Folded Pentalene Coordination in an Endohedral Fullerene that Does Not Obey the Isolated Pentagon Rule

    Marilyn M. Olmstead;Hon Man Lee;James C. Duchamp;Steven Stevenson

  • Isolation and Crystallographic Characterization of ErSc2N@C80: an Endohedral Fullerene Which Crystallizes with Remarkable Internal Order

    Marilyn M. Olmstead;Ana de Bettencourt-Dias;James C. Duchamp;S. Stevenson

  • A symmetric derivative of the trimetallic nitride endohedral metallofullerene, Sc3N@C80.

    Erick B. Iezzi;James C. Duchamp;Kim Harich;Tom E. Glass

  • Tb3N@C84: An Improbable, Egg-Shaped Endohedral Fullerene that Violates the Isolated Pentagon Rule

    Christine M. Beavers;Tianming Zuo;James C. Duchamp;Kim Harich

  • Lutetium-based Trimetallic Nitride Endohedral Metallofullerenes: New Contrast Agents

    Erick B. Iezzi;James C. Duchamp;Kerra R. Fletcher;Thomas E. Glass

  • Isolation and Structural Characterization of a Family of Endohedral Fullerenes Including the Large, Chiral Cage Fullerenes Tb3N@C88 and Tb3N@C86 as well as the Ih and D5h Isomers of Tb3N@C80

    Tianming Zuo;Christine M. Beavers;James C. Duchamp;Anne Campbell

  • Structure and enhanced reactivity rates of the D5h Sc3N@C80 and Lu3N@C80 metallofullerene isomers: the importance of the pyracylene motif.

    Ting Cai;Liaosa Xu;Mark R. Anderson;Zhongxin Ge

  • M2@C79N (M = Y, Tb): isolation and characterization of stable endohedral metallofullerenes exhibiting M-M bonding interactions inside aza[80]fullerene cages.

    Zuo T;Xu L;Beavers Cm;Olmstead Mm

  • Trimetallic nitride template endohedral metallofullerenes: discovery, structural characterization, reactivity, and applications.

    Jianyuan Zhang;Steven Stevenson;Harry C. Dorn

  • Purification of endohedral trimetallic nitride fullerenes in a single, facile step.

    Zhongxin Ge;James C. Duchamp;Ting Cai;Harry W. Gibson

  • Crystallographic characterization and structural analysis of the first organic functionalization product of the endohedral fullerene Sc3N@C80

    Hon Man Lee;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Erick Iezzi;James C. Duchamp

  • High relaxivity trimetallic nitride (Gd3N) metallofullerene MRI contrast agents with optimized functionality.

    Jianfei Zhang;Panos P. Fatouros;Chunying Shu;Jonathan Reid

  • Facile preparation of a new gadofullerene-based magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent with high 1H relaxivity.

    Chunying Shu;Frank D. Corwin;Jianfei Zhang;Zhijian Chen

  • A Pirouette on a Metallofullerene Sphere: Interconversion of Isomers of N-Tritylpyrrolidino Ih Sc3N@C80

    Ting Cai;Carla Slebodnick;Liaosa Xu;Kim Harich

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry W. Gibson
Harry W. Gibson Virginia Tech
Alan L. Balch
Alan L. Balch University of California, Davis
Steven Stevenson
Steven Stevenson Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
Marilyn M. Olmstead
Marilyn M. Olmstead University of California, Davis
Chunying Shu
Chunying Shu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Donald S. Bethune
Donald S. Bethune IBM (United States)
Jiechao Ge
Jiechao Ge Chinese Academy of Sciences
Larry T. Taylor
Larry T. Taylor Virginia Tech
David B. Geohegan
David B. Geohegan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gary E. Maciel
Gary E. Maciel Colorado State University

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