213th ECS Meeting - Phoenix, AZ

May 18 - May 22, 2008

PROGRAM INFORMATION
 

H3 - Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures: Fundamental Properties and Processes

Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Carbon Nanostructures
 

Monday, May 19, 2008

Room 212B, 200 Level, Phoenix Convention Center

Co-Chair(s): B. Weisman and P. Kamat
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
10:30   974   Tuning the Electrical and Optical Properties of Monodisperse Carbon-based Nanomaterials M. C. Hersam (Northwestern University)
10:50   975   Biomolecular Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes Using Closeable Cyclic Peptides and Other Designed Peptide Systems G. R. Dieckmann, R. Baughman (The University of Texas at Dallas), J. Coleman (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland), A. Dalton (University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK), R. Draper, I. Musselman and P. Pantano (The University of Texas at Dallas)
11:10   976   Electrochemically Controlled Coagulation of RNA-Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes: Fundamentals and Applications M. Zheng (DuPont)
11:30   977   Separating Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles using Interfaces K. Ziegler (University of Florida)
11:50   978   Dispersion and Enrichment of Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Organic Solvent Y. Maeda, T. Hasegawa (Tokyo Gakugei University), T. Tsuchiya, T. Akasaka (University of Tsukuba), J. Lu (Peking Univ.) and S. Nagase (Institute for Molecular Science)
12:10   979   In situ Raman Spectroelectrochemistry of the Controlled Doping of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in a Conducting Polymer Matrix M. Kalbac (JHI Prague), L. Kavan, M. Zukalova, O. Frank (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the ASCR, v. v. i.) and L. Dunsch (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden)
 
Co-Chair(s): M. Zheng, M. Kappes, S. Doorn, and L. Dunsch
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
13:40   980   Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Chiral Pure SWNT Samples M. Kappes (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), S. Lebedkin (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe), F. Hennrich and O. Kiowski (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
14:00   981   Resonance Raman Studies of Exciton Behavior in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes S. K. Doorn (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
14:20   982   In Situ and Ex Situ Imaging of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes P. Finnie, K. Kaminska, G. Austing and J. Lefebvre (National Research Council Canada)
14:40   983   Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Based Optical Probe for DNA Detection W. Zhao and X. Tu (University of Arkansas)
15:00   984   Probing Excitonic Transitions in Carbon Nanotube P-N Diodes J. Lee (University at Albany-SUNY)
15:20   985   K-momentum Dark Exciton Energy in Carbon Nanotubes J. Kikkawa (University of Pennsylvania)
15:40   986   Effect of Temperature on Near-IR Fluorescence of Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes S. Ghosh, S. M. Bachilo and R. B. Weisman (Rice University)
16:00 Intermission (20 Minutes)
16:20   987   Enhancement of Near-Infrared Emission of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in the Composite with Poly[(p-Phenylene-1,2-Vinylene)-co-(p-Phenylene-1,1- Vinylidene)] T. Umeyama, N. Kadota, N. Tezuka, Y. Matano and H. Imahori (Kyoto University)
16:40   988   Dependence of Intensities of c1-v1 and c2-v2 Optical Transitions in SWNT on Chiral Angle. S. Ghosh, S. M. Bachilo and R. B. Weisman (Rice University)
17:00   989   Protonation Effects on the Photoluminescence Quantum Yield and the Branching Ratio in Photoexcited SWNT Dispersions J. Blackburn (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), T. McDonald (National Institute of Standards), W. Metzger, C. Engtrakul, G. Rumbles (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) and M. Heben (NREL)
17:20   990   Carbon Nanotube Architectures for Fuel Cell Gas Diffusion Electrodes R. Palanisamy, M. Itkis, J. Tang and R. Haddon (University of California Riverside)
17:40   991   Development of Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Electron Source for Diagnostic X-ray Imaging O. Z. Zhou (UNC Chapel Hill)
18:00   992   DFT Calculations of the Energy and HOMO-LUMO (Band Gap) of Carbon and Borno-Nitride Cones and Cups M. E. Zandler (Wichita State U.) and F. D'Souza (Wichita State University)
 

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Room 212B, 200 Level, Phoenix Convention Center

Co-Chair(s): N. Shinohara, B. Wei, T. Heinz, and V. Perebeinos
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
08:00   993   Decorating Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Sheets with Semiconductor and Metal Nanoparticles P. Kamat, P. Brown and R. Muszynski (University of Notre Dame)
08:20   994   Superplasticity and Dislocation Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes: Predictions and Observations B. I. Yakobson, F. Ding, K. Jiao and Y. Lin (Rice U.)
08:40   995   Low-frequency Dielectrics of Individual Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes and an Assay for Metallic Tube Content in Mixture Samples W. Lu, Y. Xiong, D. Wang and L. Chen (Ohio University)
09:00   996   Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube Macrostructures B. Wei (University of Delaware)
09:20   997   How to "Build" the Catalyst for Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes E. Mora, O. Kuznetsov and A. Harutyunyan (Honda Research Institute USA Inc.)
09:40 Intermission (20 Minutes)
10:00   998   Preferential Production of the Semiconducting SWNTs with Near Armchair Chirality Y. Achiba, Y. Tsuruoka, K. Urata, T. Nakayama, N. Takamizu and S. Suzuki (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
10:20   999   Fabrication of Very-Thin Metal Nanowires Encapsulated in Single- and Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes H. Shinohara (Nagoya University)
10:40   1000   Polymorphic Structures of Iodine in SWCNTs Z. Gu and Z. Shi (Institute of Inorganic Chemistry)
 

Hall 2 Lower Level, Phoenix Convention Center

Poster Session

Co-Chair(s): F. D'Souza and D. M. Guldi
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
o   1001   Direct Deposition of Sulfur Assisted Bamboo like Carbon Nano Tubes on Copper Substrates S. Katar, A. Gonzalez-Berrios, J. De Jesus, B. Weiner and G. Morell (University of Puerto Rico)
o   1002   Preparation and Properties of Poly(3-alkyl thiophene) and Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites B. Kuila, A. Garai and A. K. Nandi (IACS)
o   1003   Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube-Polyaniline Gel Nanocomposites A. Garai and A. K. Nandi (IACS)
o   1004   Preparation of the Capsule-like Carbon Tubes via a Facile Solvothermal Route D. S. Yuan, Y. Liu and L. Chen (Jinan University)
o   1005   Fundamentals of the Polymer-wrapping Technique for Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes P. K. Madasu, Z. Vann, S. Stevenson and J. Phillips (University of Southern Mississippi)
o   1006   Morphology, Acoustic Phonon Confinement, Phonon-induced Strain and Dielectric Permittivity of Nominally Undoped Nano- and Micro-crystalline Diamond V. Ligatchev (Institute of High Performance Computing)
o   1007   Study on the Purity and Optical Property of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes J. Shim and M. D. Lay (University of Georgia)
o   1008   Innovative Method for Removal of Amorphous Carbon and Metallic Contaminants from Carbon Nanotubes M. Farag (Intematix Corp.)
o   1009   Graphite Nanoparticle Self Assembly on Gold M. Al azemi, F. Wang and A. P. Angelopoulos (University of Cincinnati)
o   1010   Fabrication of Metal-Nanowire Materials in Carbon Nanotube Via Nano-Template Reaction N. Imazu, R. Kitaura, K. Kobayashi and H. Shinohara (Nagoya University)
o   1011   Characterization and HPLC Length Separation of DNA-Wrapped Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Y. Asada, S. Toshiki (Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University), R. Kitaura and H. Shinohara (Nagoya University)
o   1012   Structural Characterization of Isolated Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by an AFM-HRTEM Combined Technique S. Kuwahara, T. Sugai, R. Kitaura and H. Shinohara (Nagoya University)