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Dean of Engineering
Cosponsor: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
New Professors LectureEngineering at the Nanoscale: Carbon Nanotubes and Beyond
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Pulickel M Ajayan
Benjamin M and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering
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Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science |
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM
to 5:00 PM
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McMurtry Auditorium Duncan Hall
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A reception in Martel Hall will follow the talk
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The talk will focus on various options and challenges that exist in the engineering of materials at the nanoscale. The last decade of experience in the nanotube area will be used in pointing out examples of these various approaches. The contrast in the bottom up approach accepted widely in nanotechnology and the already existing, powerful top down approach in microelectronics will be discussed. The ultimate usefulness of nanotechnology will be addressed from this perspective of the nano-engineering challenge. |
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P.M. Ajayan earned his B. Tech in metallurgical engineering from Banaras Hindu University in 1985 and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University in 1989. After three years of post-doctoral experience at NEC Corporation in Japan, he spent two years as a research scientist at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay in France and nearly a year and a half as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, Stuttgart in Germany. In 1997, he joined the materials science and engineering faculty at Rensselaer as an assistant professor and was the Henri Burlage chair Professor in Engineering until 2007. He recently joined the mechanical engineering and materials science department of Rice University, as the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering. Ajayan's research interests include nanoscale engineering, applications of nanomaterials in areas such as energy storage, composites, electronic devices and sensors etc., and phase stability in nanoscale systems. He is one of the pioneers in the field of carbon nanotubes and was involved in the early work on this topic along with the NEC group. He has published one book and 250 journal papers which have received more than 13,000 citations. He has given more than 200 invited talks including several keynote and plenary lectures in more than 20 countries. Ajayan has received several awards including the Alexander von Humboldt senior award, MRS medal, and the Burton award from the Microscopic Society of America. He was elected this year as a fellow of AAAS and as a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He is on the advisory editorial board of several materials science and nanotechnology journals and nanotech startup companies. |
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