Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley (pictured) and
Intel Science Talent Search Grand Prize winner, Marieangela Lisanti.
The conference promises to be an exciting meeting on nanotechnology.
Conference Program:
Technical
Program (Tentative) is open !!!
Revised on Oct. 18, 2001
If the paper is listed as "open" in the program, it means that if there is a no-show in the session, the chair will call on the author to present the paper in its place. Otherwise if everyone in the session shows up, then the author will have 2 minutes to briefly present the results.
In addition to the excellent technical program, this conference features
Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley (pictured) and
Intel Science Talent Search Grand Prize winner, Marieangela Lisanti.
The conference promises to be an exciting meeting on nanotechnology.
Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley
| Buckytubes! New Materials and New Devices from Carbon |
| Richard E. Smalley, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005 |
| The tubular extension of the fullerenes popularly known as "Buckytubes" are now available commercially in small quantities. Early measurements indicate that these tubes behave as coherent quantum wires. In short lengths they are expected to be the most rigid of all possible beams and effectively unbreakable even when bent in half. Grown in long ropes they are expected to form the strongest fiber ever made, with a tensile strength approximately 100 times stronger than steel at only one-sixth the weight. Short lengths derivitized at the ends will constitute a new branch of organic chemistry. These buckytubes may bring into reality old dreams of molecular electronics, and have application in virtually all technologies where electrons flow. Assembled in closest-packed crystalline arrays these tubes will serve as "seed crystals" for the direct, continuous growth of super-strong, light weight membranes, plates, tubes, and other structures made entirely out of carbon. Extension to boron nitride nanotubular materials appears feasible. |
List of Invited Speakers (As of Sep 27, 2001)
Sunday, October 28
Prof. Stella Pang, University of Michigan,
"Nanofabrication Technology for Electronic andPhotonic Devices"
Prof. Makoto Fujita, Nagoya University,
"Chemical Molecular Manipulation through Self-Assembly"
Prof. Mark Reed and Ms Marieangela Lisanti, Yale University,
"Nanotechnology: Conductance Quantization in Gold Nanowires"
Monday, October 29
Prof. Chun-Yen Chang, National Chiao-Tung University
"The Future Prospect of NANO Devices"
Prof. Richard E. Smalley, Rice University
"Buckytubes! New Materials and New Devices from Carbon"
Dr. Phaedon Avouris, IBM
"Carbon Nanotube Electronics"