217th ECS Meeting - Vancouver, Canada

April 25 - April 30, 2010

PROGRAM INFORMATION
 

H3 - Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures: Fundamental Properties and Processes

Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Carbon Nanostructures
 

Monday, April 26, 2010

Grouse, 34th Floor, Hyatt

Growth

Co-Chairs: Weisman, Zheng, Doorn
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
08:00   1500   (Invited) Direct Growth of Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Thin Films A. R. Harutyunyan (Honda Research Institute USA Inc.)
08:20   1501   The Effect of Catalyst Composition on Chirality Distributions of As-Grown Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes W. Chiang (Case Western Reserve University), D. Dutta, V. Bhethanabotla (University of South Florida) and R. Sankaran (Case Western Reserve University)
08:40   1502   Synthesis, Characterization and Electron Transfer Properties of Sea Urchin Shaped Carbon Nanostructured Materials A. Tabet-Aoul Benyoucef (EMT-INRS), Z. Hamoudi and M. Mohamedi (INRS-EMT)
09:00   1503   Pyrolytic Conversion of Organic Aerogels into Monolithic Meso- and Macroporous Carbon N. Leventis, C. Sotiriou-Leventis, N. Chandrasekaran, C. Chidambareswarapattar, S. Mahadik, D. Mohite, S. Mulik and A. Sadekar (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
 

Spectroscopy

Co-Chairs: Doorn, Kono, Weisman
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
09:20   1504   (Invited) The Evolution of Populations of Nanotubes During Synthesis from Optical Imaging and Optical Spectroscopy P. Finnie (National Research Council Canada), A. Li-Pook-Than, P. Vinten (University of Ottawa), P. Marshall and J. Lefebvre (National Research Council Canada)
09:40 Intermission (20 Minutes)
10:00   1505   (Invited) Low-Energy Dynamics in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes J. Kono (Rice University)
10:20   1506   (Invited) Raman Spectroscopy of Chirality-Enriched Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes S. Doorn, J. Duque (Los Alamos National Laboratory), E. Haroz, J. Kono (Rice University), H. Chen, A. Swan (Boston University), X. Tu and M. Zheng (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
10:40   1507   (Invited) Effects of Fullerene Encapsulation on Radial Breathing Mode Frequencies of Metallic Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes T. Okazaki (AIST)
11:00   1508   (Invited) Optical Properties and Energy Transfer in Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Nanohybrid Structures R. Nicholas (Oxford University)
11:20   1509   (Invited) Ultrabright Photoluminescence of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes X. Wang, A. Lee, L. Carlson, J. Smyder (University of Rochester), X. Tu, M. Zheng (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and T. Krauss (University of Rochester)
11:40   1510   (Invited) Exziton Dynamics in Novel Carbon Nanotube-Molecule Aggregates J. Crochet, T. Ackermann, M. Hailmann, T. Hain, T. Hefner, S. Himmelein, F. Schoeppler, D. Stich and T. Hertel (University of Wuerzburg)
12:00   1511   Emission Energy and Quantum Yield of Photo-Excited Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes: The Influence of Solvent and Surface Bound Molecules B. A. Larsen (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), P. Deria (Department of Chemistry, Duke University), M. Heben (University of Toledo), M. Therien (Department of Chemistry, Duke University) and J. Blackburn (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
 

Spectroscopy and Processing

Co-Chairs: Weisman, Zheng, Doorn
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
14:00   1512   (Invited - Young Investigator Award) Preparation, Characterization, and Application of Monodisperse Carbon-Based Nanomaterials M. C. Hersam (Northwestern University)
14:20   1513   (Invited) Optical Detection of Heavy Metals Using DNA-Carbon Nanotube Hybrids W. Zhao (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), D. Deloach (University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) and A. Kamel (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
14:40   1514   (Invited) Ground and Excited State Charge Transfer Processes in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes J. Blackburn, J. Holt, K. Mistry, J. Rocha, D. Svedruzic-Chang, P. King, A. Ferguson, N. Kopidakis (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), M. Heben (University of Toledo) and G. Rumbles (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
15:00   1515   (Invited) Preparation and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Reference Materials J. Fagan (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
15:20   1516   (Invited) Novel Near-IR Photoluminescence from Oxidized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes S. Bachilo, S. Ghosh and R. Weisman (Rice University)
15:40 Intermission (20 Minutes)
16:00   1517   (Invited) Squeezing Out Perfection from Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes F. Papadimitrakopoulos (University of Connecticut)
16:20   1518   Emission Saturation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes via Modulation of Surfactant Interaction at the Nanotube Surface J. G. Duque, C. Densmore and S. Doorn (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
16:40   1519   The Synergic Effect of Pulse and Pulse-Reverse Parameters with Various Surfactants on the Microstructure and Property of Ni-SWNT Composites M. Zheng, M. Sullivan and R. Hilty (Tyco Elecronics)
 

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Grouse, 34th Floor, Hyatt

Processing

Co-Chairs: Zheng, Doorn, Ziegler
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
08:00   1520   (Invited) DNA Sequence Motifs for Structure-Specific Recognition and Separation of Carbon Nanotubes X. Tu and M. Zheng (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
08:20   1521   (Invited) Optically Active Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes N. Komatsu (Shiga University of Medical Science)
08:40   1522   Advanced (n,m) and Enantiomeric Sorting of HiPco Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Nonlinear Density Gradient Ultracentrifugation S. Ghosh, S. Bachilo and R. Weisman (Rice University)
09:00   1523   (Invited) Using SDS to Suspend Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Love It or Hate It? K. J. Ziegler (University of Florida)
09:20   1524   (Invited) (n,m)-Selected Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Molecular Templates F. Hennrich, S. Lebedkin, N. Stuerzl and M. Kappes (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
09:40 Intermission (20 Minutes)
10:00   1525   (Invited) Controlling the Surface Features of Carbon Nanotubes Using Designed Reversible Cyclic Peptides G. R. Dieckmann, I. Musselman, S. Nielsen, A. Klimenko, P. Bajaj and C. Chiu (The University of Texas at Dallas)
10:20   1526   (Invited) Advances in the Chemistry and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene R. Haddon (Unviersity of California)
 

Transport and Other Properties

Co-Chairs: Lee, Zheng, Doorn
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
10:40   1527   (Invited - Young Investigator Award) Electrochemically Controlled Transport of Water Through Carbon Nanotube Membranes N. Koratkar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
11:00   1528   (Invited) Current Saturation and Surface Polar Phonon Scattering in Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes V. Perebeinos (IBM - Watson)
11:20   1529   (Invited) Probing Defects in Carbon Nanotubes Through Multi-Gated Structures J. Lee (University at Albany-SUNY)
11:40   1530   Influence of Surface Pretreatment of MWNT Support on PEFC Performance S. Mohanapriya, P. Sridhar, S. Pitchumani (Central Electrochemical Research Institute) and A. Shukla (Indian Institute of Science)
12:00   1531   Effects of Different Surface Morphologies and Nitrogen Contents on the Electrochemical Activity of Nitrogen Doped Carbon Nanotubes Towards Oxygen Reduction Reaction for Alkaline Fuel Cells Z. Chen and Z. Chen (University of Waterloo)
 

Other Properties

Co-Chairs: Weisman
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
14:00   1532   Diffusion-Controlled Growth Model for Electrodeposited Cobalt Nanowires in Highly Ordered Aluminum Oxide Membrane A. Ghahremaninezhad (University of British Columbia) and A. Dolati (Sharif University of Technology)
14:20   1533   Effects of Quantum Confinement on Interrelation Between DOS Spectrum and C(V) Dependencies of Si Nanowire-Based MOS Structure V. Ligatchev and S. Chin (Institute of High Performance Computing)
 

Exhibit and Poster Hall, Conference Floor, Fairmont

Poster session

Co-Chairs: Guldi and Weisman
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
o   1534   Oxygen Reduction on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Modified HOPG Electrodes in Alkaline Solution I. Kruusenberg, M. Marandi, V. Sammelselg and K. Tammeveski (University of Tartu)
o   1535   Static Inelastic-Elastic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Polypropylene A. P. Onanko, O. Lyashenko, G. Prodaivoda, S. Vigva and Y. Onanko (Kiev Research National University)
o   1536   Nanocarbon Synthesis Using Oxidized Diamond-Supported Metal Catalysts K. Nakagawa (Kansai University), H. Gamo (Toppan Printing Co. Ltd.), M. Nishitani-Gamo (Toyo University), T. Ando (National Institute for Materials Science) and H. Oda (Kansai University)
o   1537   Templated Carbons from Bio-Derived Sources for Energy Storage R. Mayes, D. DePaoli and S. Dai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)