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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Thomas F. Bailey
| alt = Thomas F. Bailey
| nationality = American
| fields = Carbon chemistry, nanocarbon materials, chemical bonding theory
| workplaces = Structured Nano Carbon LLC
| known_for = Co-invention of the "crossene" carbon allotrope; reinterpretation of C60 buckyball structure and bonding
}}

'''Thomas F. Bailey''' (Thomas Frank Bailey), who appears in conference programmes as '''Thomas Bailey PhD''' and '''Tom Bailey''', is an American chemist and independent researcher working on pure-carbon materials. He is a co-inventor of a nanocarbon allotrope named '''crossene''', and is known within the independent-research community for arguing that the standard "geodesic dome" picture of the C60 buckyball is geometrically and energetically wrong. He has been a recurring speaker at the [[Tesla Tech]] ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference since 2022.

Bailey should not be confused with other researchers of the same surname documented on this wiki, including [[Patrick G Bailey]] and [[Jacques Moret-Bailey]], with whom he has no connection.

==Biography==
Public biographical detail on Bailey is sparse. He is named as an inventor, together with Danny Cross and Larry Herbert Kirby, on a family of United States patents covering the crossene allotrope, assigned to '''Structured Nano Carbon LLC'''. The earliest of these has a priority date of 17 March 2017; US 11,718,530 B2, "Allotrope of carbon having increased electron delocalization", was granted on 8 August 2023, with a continuation issued as US 12,084,350 B2 and further continuations pending. He is listed in the 2026 ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference programme with a doctorate.

==Scientific contributions==

===Crossene: a new allotrope of carbon===
Bailey's starting point is that carbon runs the modern world — petroleum, coal, natural gas, plastics, photosynthesis — but that pure carbon holds value well beyond its use as a fuel, in the form of distinct allotropes whose very different properties follow from different bonding regimes. Diamond and graphite differ in structure because they differ in bonding; the fullerene allotrope, discovered in 1985 as a volatile spherical molecule of sixty carbon atoms and named for the geodesic-dome architect Buckminster Fuller, added a third regime.

Bailey and his colleagues describe a route to a further allotrope. An enclosed pressure detonation of graphite yields small carbon nano-onions, formed by thermal conversion of initially isolated and less thermodynamically stable nano-diamonds. These onions, typically six to eight concentric shells, are expanded by a new high-temperature annealing process to twenty or thirty layers, a process which also fuses the individual onions into chains. Bailey's account is that the chained onions then disintegrate and reintegrate into a distinct new form, which the group calls '''crossene''', characterised by extraordinary thermodynamic stability and by an exceptional degree of electron delocalisation that crosses between layers.

The patent material claims that crossene onions carry roughly double to triple the layer count of conventionally studied nano-onion materials derived from nano-diamond feedstock, that the units exist fused together in a cocoon or envelope, that the BET surface area is around a tenth that of some fifty comparison nano-onion materials, and that thermal stability measured by thermogravimetric analysis is significantly superior to all of them. Bailey places crossene as the most thermodynamically stable of the carbon allotropes, ahead of fullerene, then graphite and graphene, and finally diamond.

Bailey has further reported that graphene, fullerene and crossene, though all built from trigonally substituted carbons, each carry their own distinct bonding system, and he introduces new bonding concepts for the nanocarbon allotropes on that basis. He has also reported biological results, stating that these new allotropes fed to mice show antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity he describes as unparalleled, comparable to ormus materials, and associated with a threefold to fivefold increase in murine lifespan. These biological claims are his own and have not been independently corroborated in the mainstream literature.

===Coherency and the Kekulé argument===
In his later talks Bailey generalises the idea of ''coherency'' — the reinforcement of an effect by the coherent alignment of repeating parts, the principle by which the laser works. He traces the chemical case to August Kekulé, arguing that Kekulé's solution to the benzene problem 150 years ago identified a resonance stabilisation energy arising from the coherent alignment of carbon and hydrogen atoms at identical bond lengths and angles.

Bailey argues that Kekulé thereby described a bonding system beyond both traditional valence bonding and Linus Pauling's sigma/pi framework. Instead of the Periodic Table's picture of individual atoms as separate "solar systems" of electron orbitals, he proposes a new order of diffuse carbon atoms whose exceptional properties and thermodynamic stability arise from molecular orbitals forming what he calls a galactic Milky Way of carbon atoms. He extends the same coherency principle to structured EZ water and to resonant sound waves, and points to destructive harmonics of coherency in collapsing bridges and in geoengineering.

===Against the geodesic-dome model of C60===
Bailey's most pointedly dissident argument concerns the accepted geometry of the buckyball. He holds that the geodesic dome model — C60 as a truncated icosahedron — is an invalidating Euclidean limitation, because it requires non-uniform bond lengths and angles and therefore describes a highly strained, two-dimensional assembly of twenty aromatic six-membered rings. That strained picture, he argues, cannot account for the exceptional thermodynamic stability actually observed in C60.

His proposed replacement is the non-Euclidean perfect sphere of infinity, which he says transcends the geodesic-dome limitation while preserving the uniform bond lengths and angles that coherency requires. Bailey draws a wider conclusion from this: that the stubborn retention of Euclidean mathematics in preference to non-Euclidean conceptualisations holds physics hostage, and that Einstein's theory of relativity is consequently incomplete. He proposes instead a systemic law of unification that overcomes what he calls the dilemma of opposites, in which the relative values of infinity — zero and one — must be embraced, and in which any number is treated as an approximation of that number relative to the precision of the instrument measuring it. In his framing, one may build finite systems without rejecting their infinite qualities, leaving the door open to further visionary development.

For Bailey the general lesson is methodological: the most daunting hurdle to progress is unlearning false or incomplete notions, and language is often the key barrier. His 2026 talk extends this critique to artificial intelligence and its relationship to the scientific method.

==TeslaTech==
Bailey has been a regular speaker at the [[Tesla Tech]] ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico:
* "AI Conflicts with the 5-Step Scientific Method" — 2026 conference, Thursday 13 August 2026
* "Buckyball: 21st Century Threshold to New Chemistries" — 2025 conference, Sunday 10 August 2025
* "C60 Buckyball... Key to New Carbon-Only Materials" — 2024 conference, Saturday 10 August 2024
* "From Chaos to Coherency in Carbon, Water and Energy Potentials" — 2023 conference, Saturday 12 August 2023, Session 8 (ExtraOrdinary Concepts)
* "The Carbon Revolution!" — 2022 conference, Friday 12 August 2022, Session 5. The programme billed the talk under the line "Tesla Advocated the Need to Unleash Carbon's Potential Through Advanced Chemistry!"

==Works==
* Danny Cross, Larry Herbert Kirby and Thomas Frank Bailey, [https://patents.google.com/patent/US11718530B2/en "Allotrope of carbon having increased electron delocalization"], US Patent 11,718,530 B2, granted 8 August 2023 (assignee Structured Nano Carbon LLC)
* Danny Cross, Larry Herbert Kirby and Thomas Frank Bailey, "Allotrope of carbon having increased electron delocalization", US Patent 12,084,350 B2 (continuation)
* Danny Cross, Larry Herbert Kirby and Thomas Frank Bailey, "Allotrope of carbon having increased electron delocalization", US Patent Application 2018/0265359, published 20 September 2018

==External links==
* [https://patents.google.com/patent/US11718530B2/en US Patent 11,718,530 B2 — "Allotrope of carbon having increased electron delocalization"]
* [https://www.teslatech.info/ttevents/2023conf/2023ETCWEB.pdf 2023 ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference programme] (talk abstract, p. 10)

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