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Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Cosponsor: Dean of Engineering
Challenges towards complex nanostructures: synthesis, theory and characterization
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Humberto Terrones
Professor
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Laboratory for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research |
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
to 5:00 PM
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128 Mechanical Engineering Building
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston, Texas, USA
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The importance of the concept of curvature in different nanostructured systems will be introduced to study complexity at the atomic level. Thus, the complexity and morphology of several nanostructures including arrangements made of carbon, boron nitride, metal chalcogenides and metal oxides can be analyzed in a systematic way by studying their mathematical topology. In addition, by using simple hierarchical rules, complex architectures for new materials can be found. The synthesis and the characterization of complex nanostructured systems will be shown. Finally, the electronic and mechanical properties of different new possible nanomaterials are studied. |
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In 1992 Humberto Terrones obtained his PhD degree from Birkbeck College (University of London) under the supervision of Prof. Alan L. Mackay (FRS) Following a postdoctoral stay at Cambridge University (UK), joined the Institute of Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). After eight years, he moved to IPICYT to start the Advanced Materials Department as Head of the department to work mainly in nanosciences and nanotechnology. Mackay and Terrones were the first to introduce the concept of curvature to understand and propose new nanomaterials. He has collaborated with Prof. Harold W. Kroto (Nobel Laureate) for more than 15 years. He is co-founder of the first graduate program on nanosciences and nanotechnology in Mexico. He has published more than 150 scientific papers in different aspects of nanostructures (synthesis, theory and characterization) and has over 6000 thousand citations. His "H" index is 44. |
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