PHYS 708 |
| Carbon nanotubes are fascinating materials from the point of view of structure, form, growth and properties. The biggest challenge however is to assemble nanotubes into various architectures useful for specific applications. The talk will focus on the recent developments in our laboratory on the fabrication of carbon nanotube based architectures tailored for various applications. Various organized architectures of multiwalled and singlewalled carbon nanotubes can be fabricated using relatively simple vapor deposition techniques. The work in attaining control on the directed assembly of nanotubes on various platforms will be highlighted. Our efforts on the strategies of growth and manipulation of nanotube-based structures and in controllably fabricating hierarchically branched nanotube and nanotube-hybrid structures will be discussed. We have pursued several novel applications for these structures, for example, as nanostructured electrodes, electrical interconnects, membrane technologies, composites, thermal management systems, multifunctional brushes, polymer infiltrated thin film and bulk composites, and energy storage devices. The chemistry, assembly and the engineering aspects of creating nanotube based structures and the various challenges in controllably configuring them will be discussed.. |
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Nanostructured Materials
1:20 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, April 10, 2008 Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 338, Oral
Division of Physical Chemistry |