NIT >> News September 12, 2003 NIT Organic & Polymer Optoelectronics researchers create new material for processing information using light NIT researchers Profs. Ted Sargent (Engineering, University of Toronto) and Wayne Wang (Chemistry, Carleton University) have created a new material that combines microscopic spherical particles known as "buckyballs" with polyurethane. This new material can be used for processing information using light when applied as a thin film on a flat surface. These materials have the capacity to make the delivery and processing of information in fibre-optic communications more efficient. More info: 'Buckyball' material brings light into line, news@UofT, by Nicolle Wahl, Septmber 12, 2003 Ultrafast nonresonant third-order optical nonlinearity of fullerene-containing polyurethane films at telecommunication wavelengths, Applied Physics Letters, September 15 2003 Issue Prof. Sargent's web site