This three-year, $348,640 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry will support research at Purdue University-Fort Wayne investigating new molecular architectures of fullertubes and metallofullertubes. Professor Steven Stevenson and his students will isolate unusual tubular carbon molecules with single-layered fullerene endcaps, which have potential applications in electronics, engineering, catalysis, and medicine. The research encompasses elements of analytical, organic, physical, and materials chemistry and will educate undergraduate and high school students. Studies will analyze yields of fullertube structures obtained through different synthesis methods and examine three families of new fullertubes. The project will also investigate encapsulation of transition metal and lanthanide atoms within the fullertubes. The fundamental findings on fullertube structures are intended to inform the broader study of structure-function relationships in well-defined graphene-derived systems under the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049).