211th ECS Meeting - Chicago, Illinois

May 06 - May 10, 2007

PROGRAM INFORMATION
 

H4 - Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures: Applications and Devices

Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Carbon Nanostructures
 

Monday, May 7, 2007

Stevens 4, Northwest Hall, Lower Level

Optics and Electronic Structure of Nanotubes I

Co-Chairs: S. Rotkin and D. Guldi
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
17:00 1041 Exciton Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes T. Hertel, Z. Zhu, J. Crochet (Vanderbilt University), M. Arnold, M. C. Hersam (Northwestern University) and D. Resasco (University of Oklahoma)
17:30 1042 Isolating Monodisperse Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes via Density Gradient Ultracentrifugation M. C. Hersam (Northwestern University)
18:00 1043 Influence of External Electric Field on Fluorescence of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Dielectric Matrix S. Bachilo, A. Naumov and R. Weisman (Rice University)
 

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Stevens 4, Northwest Hall, Lower Level

Optics and Electronic Structure of Nanotubes II

Co-Chairs: Y. Gogotsi and T. Hertel
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
08:00 1044 Pentaheptite Allotropes of Carbon Nanotubes I. Milosevic (University of Belgrade), G. Volonakis, S. Logothetidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Z. Popovic and M. Damnjanovic (University of Belgrade)
08:30 1045 Carbon Nano-Foams for Hydrogen Storage B. I. Yakobson, F. Ding, Y. Lin (Rice University) and R. Aga (Oak Ridge)
09:00 1046 Self-consistent Calculation of Polarization Charge Density of a Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube-DNA Hybrid S. Rotkin and S. Snyder (Lehigh University)
 

Synthesis, Functionalization and Separation

Co-Chairs: M. Hersam and B. Yakobson
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
09:20 1047 Catalyst-Free Synthesis of Self-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on SiC Y. Gogotsi (Drexel University), G. Z. Cambaz (Drexel Uni) and G. Yushin (Drexel University)
09:50 1048 Carbon Based Electron Donor Acceptor Hybrids for Solar Energy Conversion D. Guldi (University of Erlangen)
10:10 1049 Novel Carbon Nanotubes- Sol-Gel Composite for the Sensing Application J. Wang (University of Houston), M. Jiang (University of Houston Downtown) and J. Wardeska (East Tennessee State University)
10:30 1050 Composite Photocatalyst Based on Nanofibers Containing Titanium Dioxide and Carbon Nanotubes Y. Paz, S. Kedem, D. Rozen and Y. Cohen (Technion)
10:50 1051 The Role of Ions on the Delaminations of Organic Coating. Part I: The Effect of the Lattice Energy of the Activator Salt (LiCl, NaCl, KCl, and CsCl) M. R. Reda (CanadaElectrochem)
 

Progress in Nanotube Electronic Devices I

Co-Chairs: H. Espinosa and I. Milosevic
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
11:10 1052 Carbon Nanotube Devices for Sensing and Communications Applications A. E. Wickenden, B. Nichols, M. Ervin, S. Kilpatrick (Army Research Laboratory), A. Akturk, G. Pennington, N. Goldsman, G. Esen, A. Manasson and M. Fuhrer (University of Maryland)
11:40 1053 Modulation of Conductivity in Carbon Nanotube Field effect Transistors by Electrochemical Gating A. Jagota (Lehigh University), T. Tang (University of Alberta), B. Diner (E.I. DuPont de Nemours) and S. Boussaad (E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.)
12:10 1054 Electrical Conductivity of Composite Materials based on Chemically Modified Graphene Sheets D. A. Dikin, S. Stankovich, E. Zimney, I. Jung, S. Watcharotone, G. Dommett, R. Piner, S. Nguyen and R. S. Ruoff (Northwestern University)
 

Progress in Nanotube Electronic Devices II

Co-Chairs: A. Jagota and A. Wickenden
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
13:50 1055 Carbon Nanotubes for Thin Film Electronics J. Rogers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
14:20 1056 Bilayer Nanodielectrics for High Performance Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Type Electronics Q. Cao, M. Shim (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) and J. Rogers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
14:40 1057 Application of TiO2 Nanostructures as pH Sensors W. Wu, J. Wu and J. Chen (National Cheng Kung University)
15:00 1058 Tailoring Gas Sensing Properties of Carbon Nanotubes S. Brahim, S. Colbern, B. Gump and L. Grigorian (YTC America, Inc.)
 

Mechanical Properties and Applications

Co-Chairs: S. Rotkin and M. Heben
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
15:20 1059 A NEMS Bi-stable Device - Modeling and In-situ Electron Microscopy Electro-Mechanical Characterization H. D. Espinosa (Northwestern University), C. Ke (Duke University) and O. Loh (Northwestern University)
15:50 1060 Heat Transfer Nanolubricant and Nanogrease Based on Carbon Nanotube H. Hong (SDSM&T), A. Waynick (South West Research Institute) and W. Roy (Army Research Lab)
 

Southwest Hall, Lower Level

Tuesday Evening Poster Session

Co-Chairs: F. D'Souza and D. M. Guldi
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
o 1061 Relation of the Number of Cross-Links and Mechanical Properties of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films Formed by a Dehydration Condensation Reaction S. Ogino, Y. Sato (Graduate school of environmental studies, Tohoku University), G. Yamamoto (Institude of Fluid Science, Tohoku University), K. Sasamori, H. Kimura (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University), T. Hashida (Fracture and Reliability Research Insitute, Tohoku Univesity), K. Motomiya, B. Jeyadevan and K. Tohji (Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University)
o 1062 Preparation of Polypyrrole/ Nano-TiO2 Composite by the Potential Cycling Method A. Bayandori Moghaddam, M. Ganjali, P. Norouzi and T. Razavi (University of Tehran)
o 1063 Fabricated Ge Nanocrystals with Rapid Thermal Annealing on Poly-SiGe C. H. Kao, C. Lai and M. Tasi (Chang Gung University)
o 1064 Biophotonic Application of Amphiphilic Fullerene-Fluorene Adducts L. Y. Chiang (Univ. of Mass. Lowell), K. Pritzker (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Canada), S. Verma (Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854, USA) and G. So (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada)