RC Cola in a can, and later the first company to sell a soft drink in an aluminum can. In 1958, the company introduced the first diet cola, Diet Rite, and in 1980, a caffeine-free cola, RC 100. In the mid-1990s, RC released Royal Crown Draft Cola, billed as a "premium" cola using pure cane sugar as a sweetener, rather than high fructose corn syrup. Offered only in 12-ounce bottles, sales were disappointing, due largely to the inability of the RC bottling network to get distribution for the product in single-drink channels, and it was discontinued with the exceptions of Australia, New
Baratunde A. Cola involved in the founding of the NanoEngineered Systems and Transport Lab and Heat Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is an associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering. For 2015–6 he was a Martin Luther King Jr. visiting professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Specilizing in carbon nanotube technology, Cola led the team who demonstrated the first optical rectenna. In addition he is involved in research into the development of thermo-electrochemical calls that produce electricity from waste heat. Cola