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Fall 2006 logo2006 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

November 27 - December 1, 2006 | Boston
Meeting Chairs:
 Babu R. Chalamala, Louis J. Terminello, Helena Van Swygenhoven

 

Symposium Q : Nanowires and Carbon Nanotubes---Science and Applications

2006-11-27   Show All Abstracts

Symposium Organizers

Prabhakar Bandaru University of California-San Diego
Morinobu Endo Shinshu University
Ian Kinloch University of Cambridge
Apparao M. Rao Clemson University
Q1:Physics and Modeling of Nanotubes and Nanowires
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Morinobu Endo
Ian Kinloch
Monday PM, November 27, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

9:00 AM - Q1.1
Atomistic Theory and Simulation of Electronic and Molecular Transport in Carbon Nanotubes.

Yongqiang Xue 1
1 College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering, University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, New York, United States

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9:15 AM - Q1.2
Dielectric Response of Carbon and Boron Nitride Nanotubes from First-principles Calculations.

Boris Kozinsky 1 , Nicola Marzari 1
1 , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:30 AM - Q1.3
A First-principles Study of Pd-covered Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes.

Wenguang Zhu 1 2 , Efthimios Kaxiras 1
1 Department of Physics and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Center for Computational Materials, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Departments of Physics and Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States

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9:45 AM - Q1.4
Pressure Induced Transformation of Carbon Nanotubes into New Crystalline Polymerized Nanotube Phase: A Molecular Dynamics Study.

Susumu Saito 1 , Yuichiro Yamagami 1
1 Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Japan

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10:00 AM - Q1.5
Challenges in Chirality Assignment for Carbon Nanotubes.

Francesca Clemente 1 2 , Olivier Richard 1 , Thomas Hantschel 1 , Wilfried Vandervorst 1 2
1 , IMEC, Leuven Belgium, 2 , K.U.Leuven, INSYS, Leuven Belgium

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10:15 AM - Q1.6
Band-gap Modulation and Kohn Anomalies in Two-dimensional Graphite and Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes.

Georgii Samsonidze 1 , Eduardo Barros 2 , Hyungbin Son 1 , Riichiro Saito 3 , Gene Dresselhaus 4 , Mildred Dresselhaus 1 5
1 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, 3 Department of Physics, Tohoku University and CREST JST, Sendai Japan, 4 Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 5 Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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10:30 AM - Q1.7
Thermodynamic Solubility of Carbon Nanotubes in Common Solvents.

Jonathan Coleman 1
1 School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ireland

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10:45 AM - Q1
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Q2: Carbon Nanostructure Growth I
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Ian Kinloch
Monday PM, November 27, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

11:15 AM - **Q2.1
Geometry-Controlled Carbon Nanotubes.

Sungho Jin 1
1 Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States

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11:45 AM - Q2.2
Fast and Position-Controlled Growth of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Zuqin Liu 1 , David Styers-Barnett 1 , Alex Puretzky 1 , Chris Rouleau 1 , IIia Ivanov 1 , Dongning Yuan 2 , Jie Liu 2 , David Geohegan 1
1 Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States, 2 Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States

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12:00 PM - Q2.3
Combinatorial Development of Catalysts for CVD Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes.

Benjamin Hertzberg 1 , Jonathan Petrie 1 , R. van Dover 1
1 Materials Sci. & Eng, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States

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12:15 PM - Q2.4
Dynamic Restructuring Of Solid Catalyst Cluster During Carbon Nanotube CVD.

Stephan Hofmann 1 , Renu Sharma 2 , Gaohui Du 2 , Mirco Cantoro 1 , Simone Pisana 1 , Atlus Parvez 1 , Caterina Ducati 3 , Rafal Dunin-Borkowski 3 , John Robertson 1
1 Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom, 2 Center for Solid State Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States, 3 Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom

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12:30 PM - Q2.5
In-Situ Studies of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Growth Under Reductive and Oxidative Ambient.

Avetik Harutyunyan 1 , Elena Mora 1
1 Material Science, Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Columbus, Ohio, United States

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Q3: Carbon Nanostructure Growth II
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Ian Kinloch
Monday PM, November 27, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

2:30 PM - Q3.1
Controlling the Catalyst Shape and Size Controls Nanotube Growth.

John Robertson 1 , Stephan Hofmann 1 , Mirco Cantoro 1 , Simone Pisana 1 , Atlus Parvez 1 , Andrea Ferrari 1 , Caterina Ducati 1
1 Engineering, Cambridge University, Cambridge United Kingdom

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2:45 PM - Q3.2
Catalyst-Free Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Nonplanar, Porous, Polycrystalline Silicon Carbide Substrates for Electrochemical and Photochemical Applications.

Elmo Blubaugh 1 , Heidi Cross 1 , Mike Check 1 , Bill Riehl 1
1 R&D, Riehl-Check Industries, LLC., Kettering, Ohio, United States

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3:00 PM - **Q3.3
Tuning Structure and Function of Carbon Nanofiber and Metal Nanoparticles in a Controlled Co-synthesis Process.

Anatoli Melechko 1 , Kate Klein 1 2 , Jason Fowlkes 1 2 , Philip Rack 2 , Michael Simpson 1 2
1 Molecular-Scale Engineering and Nanoscale Technologies, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States, 2 Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

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3:30 PM - Q3
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Q4: Carbon Nanostructure Growth III
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Ian Kinloch
Monday PM, November 27, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

4:30 PM - **Q4.1
Controlled Assembly of Carbon Nanotube Architectures.

Pulickel Ajayan 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States

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5:00 PM - Q4.2
The Growth and Properties of Highly Crystalline Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Krzysztof Koziol 1 , Caterina Ducati 1 , Steffi Friedrichs 2 , Milo Shaffer 3 , Paul Midgley 1 , Alan Windle 1
1 Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom, 2 , The Technology Partnership plc, Royston United Kingdom, 3 Department of Chemistry, Imperial College Science Technology & Medicine, London United Kingdom

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5:15 PM - Q4.3
High Uniformity Growth of Sub-Nanometer (0.7 nm) Diameter Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes using Catalyst Particle Templates Produced by Nanosphere Lithography.

Noureddine Tayebi 1 2 , Joseph Lyding 1 2
1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States, 2 Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States

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5:30 PM - Q4.4
Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Growth with Uniform Diameter Distribution by Block Copolymer Micellar Catalyst Templates.

Xi Liu 1 , Terry Bigioni 1 , Alan Cassell 1 , Brett Cruden 1
1 , NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, United States

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5:45 PM - Q4.5
Growth and In-Situ Optical Characterization of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Monoliths Using a Desktop Reactor Apparatus with Rapid Thermal Control.

Lucas van Laake 1 2 , A. Hart 1 , Don Lucca 3 , Lin Shao 4 , Matt Klopfstein 3 , Alexander Slocum 1
1 Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven Netherlands, 3 School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States, 4 , Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

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Q5: Poster Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Growth and Assembly
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Morinobu Endo
Ian Kinloch
Apparao Rao
Tuesday AM, November 28, 2006
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)

9:00 PM - Q5.1
Lower-pressure Effects on Single-wall Ccarbon Nanotubes Growth in Alcohol Catalytic Chemical Vapor Deposition.

Takao Shiokawa 1 2 , Hiroshi Yoshida 1 3 , Bao-Ping Zhang 4 , Masaki Suzuki 1 2 , Koji Ishibashi 1 2
1 Advanced Device Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Sitama, Japan, 2 , CREST-JST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan, 3 , Tokyo University of Science, Shinjyuku, Tokyo, Japan, 4 , Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

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9:00 PM - Q5.10
Diameter and Metallicity Dependent Dedoping and Separation of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes.

Steve Kim 1 , Zhengtang Luo 1 , Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos 1
1 Polymer Program, IMS, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.11
Single Wall Carbon Nanotube (SWNT) Production in a Vertical Furnace by the Floating Catalyst Method.

Ranadeep Bhowmick 1 2 , Brett Cruden 2 , Bruce Clemens 1
1 Materials Sc & Engg, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States, 2 Center for nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.12
A New Laser-heated CVD Setup for Studies of Local Carbon Nanotube Growth.

Lucas van Laake 1 , Yves Bellouard 1 , Andreas Dietzel 1
1 Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven Netherlands

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9:00 PM - Q5.13
Contrast Imaging of Carbon Nanofiber-Substrate Interface using Scanning Electron Microscopy.

Makoto Suzuki 1 , Yusuke Ominami 1 , Quoc Ngo 1 2 , Toshishige Yamada 2 , Alan Cassell 2 , Jun Li 2 , Cary Yang 1
1 Center for Nanostructures, Santa Clara University, San Jose, California, United States, 2 Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.14
The Effect of Catalyst Composition on the Growth of Carbon Single-Walled Nanotubes.

Elena Mora 1 , Toshio Tokune 1 , Avetik Harutyunyan 1
1 , Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Columbus, Ohio, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.15
Synthesis and Structure of Carbon Nanotube Y-junctions.

Bimal Pandey 1 , Wenzhi Li 1
1 Physics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.16
Direct Evidence for base-growth Through Aligned Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube Multilayers.

Mathieu Pinault 1 2 , Martine Mayne-L’Hermite 2 , Cecile Reynaud 2 , Vincent Pichot 3 , Pascale Launois 3 , Hicham Khodja 4
1 Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 2 Laboratoire Francis Perrin (URA CNRS 2453), CEA Saclay DSM-DRECAM-SPAM, Gif sur Yvette France, 3 Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (UMR CNRS 8502), Université Paris Sud, Orsay France, 4 Laboratoire Pierre Süe, UMR 9956, CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette France

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9:00 PM - Q5.17
Isolated Bundles of High Quality, Highly Uniform Single Wall Nanotubes Grown at very Low Substrate Temperature.

Sakthi Kumar 1 2 , Yasuhiko Yoshida 1
1 Bio Nano Electronics Research Center, Toyo University, Kawagoe-shi, Saitama, Japan, 2 REDS Group/JST, Saitama Small Enterprise Promotion Corporation, SKIP City, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.18
Growth of Horizontally Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: A Systematic Study of Growth Mechanisms.

Alfonso Reina 1 , Jing Kong 2
1 Materials Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.19
Controlling the Morphology of Carbon Nanotube Films by Varying the Areal Density of Catalyst Nanoclusters Using Block Copolymer Micellar Thin Films.

Ryan Bennett 1 , Anastasios Hart 2 , Robert Cohen 1
1 Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.2
Control of The Growth Rate of Carbon Nanotubes by Ion Fluxes in CH4/H2 Plasma.

Atsushi Okita 1 , Yoshiyuki Suda 1 , Atsushi Ozeki 1 , Junji Nakamura 2 , Akinori Oda 3 , Krishnendu Bhattacharyya 1 , Hirotake Sugawara 1 , Yosuke Sakai 1
1 Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan, 2 Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Japan, 3 Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.20
Tubulization Mechanism of Amorphous Carbon-nanopillar.

Toshinari Ichihashi 1 3 , Masahiko Ishida 1 3 , Jun-ichi Fujita 2 3
1 Fundamental & Environmental Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Tsukuba Japan, 3 , CREST-JST, Kawaguchi Japan, 2 Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.21
Catalyst Patterning and Location Controlled Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Ruth Zhang 1 , John Tresek 1 , Islamshah Amlani 1 , Kevin Nordquist 1 , Donald Weston 1 , Ray Tsui 1 , Larry Nagahara 1
1 Embedded Systems Research, Motorola Labs, Tempe, Arizona, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.22
Synthesis of Very Dense and Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes by Radical CVD.

Tsuyoshi Yoshida 1 , Daisuke Yokoyama 1 , Takayuki Iwasaki 1 , Hiroshi Kawarada 1
1 , School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.23
Determination of the Chiral Indices of Carbon Nanotubes.

Lu-Chang Qin 1 , Zejian Liu 1 , Qi Zhang 1 , Gongpu Zhao 1 , Hakan Deniz 1 , Jie Tang 2 1
1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 2 Material Physics Division, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.24
Influence of Substrate Morphology and Catalyst-substrate Interaction on Single and Multi-wall Carbon Nanotube Growth Characteristics.

Ageeth Bol 1 , Joseph Spagnola 1 2 , Christopher Murray 1
1 TJ Watson Research Center, IBM, Yorktown Heigths, New York, United States, 2 Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.25
Synthesis of Large Uniform Arrays of Mono-metallic and Bi-metallic Nanoparticles as Catalysts for SWNTs.

Sreekar Bhaviripudi 1 , Alfonso Reina 1 , Jifa Qi 1 , Jing Kong 2 , Angela Belcher 1 3
1 Materials science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 3 Biological Engineering Division, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.27
Growth of Carbon Nanocoils in Alcohol Chemical Vapor Deposition.

Toshio Ogino 1 , Noriaki Tsuchiya 1
1 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.28
SWCNTs for C82 Peapods: Synthesis using Nonmagnetic Catalysts.

Miroslav Haluska 1 , M. Hulman 2 , J. Cech 1 , V. Skakalova 1 , B. Hornbostel 1 , S. Roth 1
1 von Klitzing, FKF-MPI, Stuttgart Germany, 2 Institute for Material physics , Faculty of Physics, Vienna Austria

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9:00 PM - Q5.29
Synthesis and Characterization of Water-Soluble Phospholipid-Modified Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes.

Peng He 1
1 Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.3
Continuous Growth of CNT Forests using Bimetallic Nanoparticles.

Amandeep Sra 1 , Fabian Reyes 1 , Lawrence Overzet 1 , Gil Lee 1 , Duck Yang 2
1 Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States, 2 Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.30
Systematic Investigation of Electrodeposition Process for Synthesis of Nanowires inside Nanoporous Templates.

Adam Friedman 1 , Latika Menon 1
1 Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.31
HRTEM and EELS Analysis of the Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes.

Jiri Cech 1 , Martin Kalbac 2 3 , Donghui Zhang 4 5 , Lothar Dunsch 3 , Seamus Curran 5 , Siegmar Roth 1
1 Synthetic Nanostructures, Max Planck Institute For Solid State Research, Stuttgart Germany, 2 , J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague Czech Republic, 3 , IFW, Dresden Germany, 4 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, 5 Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.32
Theoretical Analysis of Non-Catalytic Growth of Nanorods on a Substrate.

S. Joon Kwon 1 , Jae-Gwan Park 1
1 Materials Science and Technology Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q5.33
Bundle Dissociation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Amide Solvents.

Shane Bergin 1 , Silvia Giordani 1 , Valeria Nicolosi 1 , Werner Blau 1 , Jonathan Coleman 1
1 Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin , Leinster, Ireland

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9:00 PM - Q5.34
Tailoring Dispersion and Microstructure of Carbon Nanotubes Using Weak Polyelectrolytes.

Jaime Grunlan 1 3 2 , Lei Liu 3 2
1 Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States, 3 Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States, 2 Polymer Technology Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.35
Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Monolayer Film at the Liquid-liquid Interface.

Jun Matsui 1 , Kohei Yamamoto 1 , Nobuhiro Inokuma 1 , Hironori Orikasa 1 , Takashi Kyotani 1 , Tokuji Miyashita 1
1 Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.36
Liquid-crystalline Processing of Oriented Carbon Nanotube Array for the Application as Thin Film Transistors.

Hyunhyub Ko 1 2 , Vladimir Tsukruk 1 2
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States, 2 Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.37
Patterned Forest-Assembly of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes on Gold Using a Non-Thiol Functionalization Technique.

Haoyan Wei 1 , Sejong Kim 2 , Sang Nyon Kim 2 , Bryan Huey 1 , Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos 2 , Harris Marcus 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering Program, Department of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States, 2 Nanomaterials Optoelectronics Laboratory, Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.38
Thermodynamics Modeling of Defective Carbon Nanotubes in the Presence of Adsorbates.

Amanda Barnard 1
1 Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford United Kingdom

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9:00 PM - Q5.39
Mechanism and Control of CNT Adsorption onto Silicon Dioxide Surfaces.

Timothy Burgin 1 , Justin Lewenstein 2 , Dennis Werho 3
1 Motorola Labs, Motorola, Tempe, Arizona, United States, 2 , Freescale Semiconductor, Tempe, Arizona, United States, 3 , Medtronic, Tempe, Arizona, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.4
Surface Reactions of Metal Catalysts in Ethanol-CVD Ambient at Low-pressure Studied by in-situ Photoelectron Spectroscopy.

Fumihiko Maeda 1 , Satoru Suzuki 1 , Yoshihiro Kobayashi 1 , Daisuke Takagi 2 , Yoshikazu Homma 2
1 NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation, and CREST, JST, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, Japan, 2 Department of Physics, Tokyo University of Science and CREST, JST, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.40
A Facile Solution Method to Synthesis of C60 Nanorods.

Bingbing Liu 1 , Lin Wang 1 , Guangtian Zou 1 , Agnieszka Iwasiewicz 2 , Bertil Sundqvist 2
1 , Jilin University, National Lab of Superhard Materials, Changchun China, 2 Department of Physics, Umea University, Umea Sweden

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9:00 PM - Q5.41
First-principles Characterization of the Electrical, Vibrational, and Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes Functionalized with [2+1] Cycloadditions.

Young-Su Lee 1 , Nicola Bonini 1 , Nicola Marzari 1
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.42
Novel Hybrid Polypropylene Nanocomposites with Montmorillonite and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Emmanouil Vamvounis 1 , John Stanford 1 , Arthur Wilkinson 1 , Robert Young 1
1 School of Materials, University of Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

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9:00 PM - Q5.43
Heat Transport of Carbon Nanotubes Embedded in a Metal Layer.

Yoichi Taira 1 , Kuniaki Sueoka 1
1 Tokyo Research Lab, IBM, Yamato Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.45
Multifunctional Macro Architectures of Double-walled Carbon Nanotube Fibers.

Lijie Ci 1 , Saikat Talapatra 1 , Niramol Punbusayakul 1 2 , Robert Vajtai 1 , Pulickel. M. Ajayan 1
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States, 2 School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology, Bangkok Thailand

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9:00 PM - Q5.46
Strengthened, Aligned Carbon Nanotube Film via Vapor Phase Infiltration of Carbon.

Xuesong Li 1 , Lijie Ci 1 , Pulickel Ajayan 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.47
Stability and Crystallization Behaviors of Regioreguler Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Nanotube Composites.

Ananta Adhikari 1 , Mircea Chipara 2 , Chang Ryu 3 , Pulickel Ajayan 4 , Hassaram Bakhru 1
1 College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering, State University of New York, Albany, New York, United States, 2 Department of Chemistry , Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States, 3 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States, 4 Department of Material Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.48
Work Function of Functionalized Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes.

Nicholas Miller 1 , Janet Ryu 1 , Nicola Marzari 1
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.49
In-situ Raman Study on Lithium Insertion into Double Walled Carbon Nanotubes-derived Bucky Paper.

Yoong Ahm KIm 1 , Hayashi Takuya 1 , Muramatsu Hiroyuki 1 , Endo Morinobu 1 , Terrones Mauricio 2 , Dresselhaus Mildred S. 3
1 , Shinshu University, Nagano Japan, 2 , IPICYT, San Luis Potosí Mexico, 3 , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.5
Three-Dimensional Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Architecture using Suspended Catalyst Particles.

Tomoya Ito 1 , Toshio Ogino 1 2
1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama Japan, 2 , Japan Science And Technology Agency, Kawaguchi Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.50
Subwavelength Microscopy with Elongated Nanostructures.

Pavel Dorozhkin 1 , Konstantin Mochalov 1 , Sergey Saunin 1 , Victor Bykov 1
1 , NT-MDT Co., Zelenograd Moscow Russian Federation

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9:00 PM - Q5.51
Binding of Charged Supramolecular Complexes to Carbon Nanotubes.

Harsh Chaturvedi 2 , Andrea Giordano 1 , Ryan Phillips 1 , Thomas Younts 1 , Jordan Poler 1 2
2 Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 1 Chemistry, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.52
Resonant Raman Scattering Excitation Profiles from a 1D System.

Yan Yin 1 , A. Vamivakas 2 , A. Walsh 1 , S. Cronin 3 , M. Unlu 2 1 , B. Goldberg 1 2 , A. Swan 2 1
1 Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 3 Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.53
Study on Double-walled Carbon Nanotube X-junction Formation.

Takuya Hayashi 1 , Yuta Shiba 1 , Hiroyuki Muramatsu 1 , Daisuke Shimamoto 1 , Satoru Naokawa 1 , Shusuke Furui 1 , Yoong-Ahm Kim 1 , Morinobu Endo 1
1 , Shinshu University, Nagano Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.54
Sodium Chloride-Catalyzed Oxidation of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Environmental Benefit.

Kenji Takeuchi 1 , Takeyuki Tajiri 1 , Ki Chul Park 1 , Morinobu Endo 1 , Mildred Dresselhaus 2
1 , Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano Japan, 2 , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.55
Imaging and Engineering Strain in Individual Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes.

Hyungbin Son 1 , Xiaojie Duan 2 , Jin Zhang 2 , Georgii Samsonidze 1 , Yingying Zhang 2 , Ervin Mile 1 , Mildred Dresselhaus 1 , Zhongfan Liu 2 , Jing Kong 1
1 , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 , Peking University, Beijing China

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9:00 PM - Q5.56
Embedding Nanoparticles in the Walls of Carbon Nanotubes.

Davide Mattia 1 , Gulya Korneva 1 , Yury Gogotsi 1
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.57
Boron-induced Coalescence in Double Walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Hiroyuki Muramatsu 1 , Kim Yoong-Ahm 1 , Takuya Hayashi 1 , Morinobu Endo 1
1 , Shinshu University, Nagano Japan

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9:00 PM - Q5.61
Novel Metallic Substrate Mediated Growth of Aligned CNT Films and its Thermal Transport on Metal-NT Interface.

Sunil Pal 1 , Saikat Talapatra 2 , Swastik Kar 2 , Robert Vajtai 3 , Linda Schadler 2 3 , Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc 1 3 , Pulickel Ajayan 2 3
1 Mechanical, Aerospace, & Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States, 2 Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tory, New York, United States, 3 Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.62
Synthesis of TCNQ-Cu organic nanowires and directed growth into devices

Kai Xiao 1 , Jing Tao 2 , Ilia Ivanov 1 , Alex Puretzky 1 , Zuqin Liu 1 , Stephen Pennycok 2 , David Geohegan 1 2
1 Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States, 2 Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.63
Experimental Study of Factors Controlling the Production of Micro- and Nanofibers by Laser Spinning.

Felix Quintero 1 2 , Adrian Mann 2 , Juan Pou 1 , Fernando Lusquiños 1 , Antonio Riveiro 1
1 Applied Physics, University of Vigo, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain, 2 Materials Science & Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

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9:00 PM - Q5.64
Novel Organic Nanohelices via Vapor-Solid Phase Transformation Reaction

Seok Min Yoon 1 , Bonghwan Chon 1 , Wonjung Kim 1 , Sang Joo Lee 2 , Taiha Joo 1 , Seung-Koo Shin 1 , Jin Yong Lee 3 , Hee Cheul Choi 1
1 department of chemistry, pohang university of science and technology, Pohang Korea (the Republic of), 2 Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, 52 Eoeun-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon Korea (the Republic of), 3 chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun-Dong, Jangan-Gu , Suwon Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q5.8
Optimization of the Production Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Fe-Mo/MgO as Catalyst.

Marcio Lima 1 2 , Mônica de Andrade 1 2 , Siegmar Roth 1 , Carlos Bergmann 2
1 von Klitzing's department, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 2 Materials Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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9:00 PM - Q5.9
Structural Investigation of Nano-Carbon Produced by Electric Arc-Discharge in Non-Conventional Environments.

Emanuela Piscopiello 1 , Marco Vittori Antisari 2 , Daniele Mirabile Gattia 2 , Vittoria Contini 2 , Maria Rita Mancini 2 , Amelia Montone 2 , Renzo Marazzi 2
1 UTS MAT, ENEA-c.r. Brindisi, Brindisi Italy, 2 UTS Materiali e Nuove Tecnologie, ENEA-c.r. Casaccia, Rome Italy

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Symposium Organizers

Prabhakar Bandaru University of California-San Diego
Morinobu Endo Shinshu University
Ian Kinloch University of Cambridge
Apparao M. Rao Clemson University
Q6: Novel CNT morphologies and Nanostructure Assembly
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Tuesday AM, November 28, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

9:00 AM - **Q6.1
Emerging Nanodevices made with Branched Nanostructures.

Hongqi Xu 1
1 Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University, Lund Sweden

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9:30 AM - Q6.2
Electrical Property-Structure Correlation of Y Branched Carbon Nanotubes.

Jeongwon Park 1 , Prabhakar Bandaru 1 , Apparao Rao 2
1 Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States, 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States

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9:45 AM - Q6.3
Towards an AC Dielectrophoresis Toolkit for Assembling Carbon Nanotube Devices.

Sarbajit Banerjee 1 2 , Brian White 1 2 , Limin Huang 1 2 , Blake Rego 1 2 , Stephen O'Brien 1 2 , Irving Herman 1 2
1 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States, 2 Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States

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10:00 AM - Q6.4
Techniques Toward lLrge-scale Chiral Separation of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes via Selective Precipitation.

Timothy McDonald 1 2 , Jeffrey Blackburn 1 , Chaiwat Engtrakul 1 , Garry Rumbles 1 , Michael Heben 1
1 Basic Science, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado, United States, 2 Applied Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States

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10:15 AM - Q6.5
Diameter and Chirality Dependent Characterization and Separation of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes.

Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos 1 , Zhengtang Luo 1 , Sang Nyon Kim 1 , Stephen Doorn 2 , Lisa Pfefferle 3 , Gary Haller 3
1 Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States, 2 Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, 3 Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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10:30 AM - Q6.6
Lithography-free In Situ Ohmic Contacts to Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Aaron Franklin 1 2 , Joshua Smith 1 2 , Matthew Maschmann 1 3 , David Janes 1 2 , Timothy Sands 1 2 4 , Timothy Fisher 1 3
1 Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, 2 Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette , Indiana, United States, 3 Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette , Indiana, United States, 4 Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette , Indiana, United States

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10:45 AM - Q6.7
Focused Ion Beam Induced Growth of Antimony Nanowires.

Christoph Schoendorfer 1 , Alois Lugstein 1 , Youn-Joo Hyun 1 , Peter Pongratz 2 , Emmerich Bertagnolli 1
1 Institute for Solid State Electronics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna Austria, 2 Institute for Solid State Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna Austria

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11:00 AM - Q6
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Q7: Raman Spectroscopy
Session Chairs
Susumu Saito
Tuesday PM, November 28, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

11:30 AM - **Q7.1
Phonon-Phonon Interactions in Suspended Carbon Nanotubes.

Jose Menendez 1
1 Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States

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12:00 PM - Q7.2
Nanowires Enabling Signal Enhanced Nano-Raman-Spectroscopy.

Michael Becker 1 , Vladimir Sivakov 2 3 , Ulrich Gösele 2 , Gudrun Andrä 3 , Ruth Geiger 4 , Hans-Juergen Reich 4 , Samuel Hoffmann 5 , Johann Michler 5 , Silke Christiansen 1 3
1 , Martin-Luther University, Halle Germany, 2 , Max-Planck-Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle Germany, 3 , Institute for Physical Hightechnology e.V., Jena Germany, 4 , Horiba Jobin Yvon GmBH, Bensheim Germany, 5 , EMPA, Thun Germany

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12:15 PM - Q7.3
One and Two Phonon Resonant Raman Scattering from Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes.

Anthony Vamivakas 1 , Yan Yin 2 , Andrew Walsh 2 , Selim Unlu 1 , Bennett Goldberg 2 , Anna Swan 1
1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Physics, Boston University, Boston , Massachusetts, United States

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12:30 PM - Q7.4
Raman Antenna Effect of Semiconducting Nanowires.

Qihua Xiong 1 , G. Chen 1 , M. Pellen 2 , J. Petko 2 , D. Werner 2 , Peter Eklund 1
1 Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

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12:45 PM - Q7.5
Counting Graphene Layers by Raman Spectroscopy

Andrea C. Ferrari 1 , Jannik Meyer 2 , Vittorio Scardaci 1 , Cinzia Casiraghi 1 , Michele Lazzeri 3 , Francesco Mauri 3 , Stefano Piscanec 1 , Da Jiang 4 , Kostya Novoselov 4 , Andre Geim 4
1 Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom, 2 , Max Plank Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart Germany, 3 , Institut de Mineralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condenses, Paris France, 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester United Kingdom

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Q8: Inorganic nanowires
Session Chairs
Mahendra Sunkara
Tuesday PM, November 28, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

2:30 PM - Q8.1
Controlled Synthesis of Millimeter-Long Silicon Nanowires with Uniform Electronic Properties.

Won Il Park 1 , Gengfeng Zheng 1 , Xiaocheng Jiang 1 , Bozhi Tian 1 , Charles Lieber 1 2
1 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridg, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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2:45 PM - Q8.2
Hetero-epitaxy of Germanium Nanowires on Silicon Substrates from Gold Colloids and Subsequent Gold Catalyst Removal.

Jacob Woodruff 1 , Joshua Ratchford 1 , Christopher Chidsey 1
1 Chemistry Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States

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3:15 PM - Q8.4
Surface and Electrical Characterization of InAs Nanowires.

Qingling Hang 1 , Fudong Wang 2 , Dmitry Zemlyanov 1 , William Buhro 2 , David Janes 1
1 , Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, 2 , Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

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3:30 PM - Q8.5
Shape Control Growth of Crystalline Lanthanum Hexaboride Nanostructures.

Joseph Brewer 1 , Nirmalendu Deo 1 , Chin Li Cheung 1 2
1 Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, 2 Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

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3:45 PM - Q8
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Q9: III-V Semiconductor Nanowires
Session Chairs
Sungho Jin
Tuesday PM, November 28, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

4:15 PM - **Q9.1
Inorganic Nanowires: Novel Synthesis Approaches and Applications

Mahendra Sunkara 1
1 Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States

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4:45 PM - Q9.2
Nucleation Mechanism for Catalyst-free GaN Nanowires.

Kris Bertness 1 , A. Roshko 1 , L. Mansfield 1 , I. Levin 2 , N. Sanford 1
1 Mail Stop 815.04, NIST, Boulder, Colorado, United States, 2 , NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

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5:00 PM - Q9.3
Electronic Structure of Donor and Acceptor Impurities in Semiconductor Nanowires.

Mamadou Diarra 1 , Yann-Michel Niquet 2 , Christophe Delerue 1 , Guy Allan 1
1 ISEN, IEMN (UMR CNRS 8520), LILLE France, 2 DRFMC/SP2M/L_Sim, CEA, Grenoble France

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5:15 PM - Q9.4
Study of Individual Gallium Nitride Nanowires Grown by HVPE and CVD.

Joonah Yoon 1 2 , Ilan Shalish 2 , George Seryogin 2 , Venkatesh Narayanamurti 2
1 Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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5:30 PM - Q9.5
Fabrication of Horizontal GaN Nanowires and Interconnected Nanobridges for Sensing Applications.

Tania Henry 1 , Kyungkon Kim 1 , George Cui 1 , Jung Han 1 , Y. Song 2 , A. Nurmikko 2 , Hong Tang 3
1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 2 Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 3 Department of Physics, California Institue of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States

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Q10: Poster Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Synthesis and Applications
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Morinobu Endo
Ian Kinloch
Apparao Rao
Wednesday AM, November 29, 2006
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)

9:00 PM - Q10.1
Synthesis and Characterization of Pyrochlore-type Bi2Ti2O7 Nanotubes.

Hongjun Zhou 1 , Tae-Jin Park 1 , Stanislaus Wong 1 2
1 Chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, United States, 2 , Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, New York, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.10
Mn-incorporated ZnSe and CdSe 1-dimensional Nanostructures.

Jinyoung Lee 1 , Dae Sung Kim 1 , Hye Jin Chun 1 , Ja Hee Kang 1 , Shin Young Kim 1 , Sang Won Yoon 1 , Jeunghee Park 1
1 Material Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q10.11
Synthesis of Pure Boron Single-Wall Nanotubes.

Dragos Ciuparu 2 1 , Mathieu Pinault 1 , Lisa Pfefferle 1
2 Department of Petroleum Processing and Petrochemistry, Petrol-Gaze University of Ploiesti, Ploiesti Romania, 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.12
Synthesis, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Cd1-xMnxS Nanowires.

Dae Sung Kim 1 , JinYoung Lee 1 , Hye Jin Chun 1 , Jeunghee Park 1
1 , Korea University, Seoul Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q10.13
HVPE and CVD Growth of InN Nanowires.

George Seryogin 1 , Ilan Shalish 1 , Venkatesh Narayanamurti 1 , Jiming Bao 1 , Federico Capasso 1
1 Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.14
Straightforward Synthesis of Single Crystalline Rutile TiO2 Nanowires.

Syed Amin 1 , Terry Xu 1
1 Department of Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.15
Solution Based Semiconductor Nanowires.

Masaru Kuno 1 , Darren Peterson 1 , Vladimir Protasenko 1
1 Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.16
High Yield Growth of Amorphous Free CdS Nanowires, Nanobelts, and Turf-like Structure at Low Temperatures over a Quartz Substrate.

Juno Lawrance 1 , Lifeng Dong 2 , Josh Green 2 , Jun Jiao 2
1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, United States, 2 Department Of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.17
Growth of Gallium Nitride Nanowires and Nanospirals.

Goutam Koley 1 , Zhihua Cai 1
1 Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.18
Ambient Template-directed Synthesis of Single-crystalline Alkaline Earth Metal Fluoride Nanowires.

Fen Zhang 1 , Yuanbing Mao 1 , Stanislaus Wong 1 2
1 Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, United States, 2 Materials and Chemical Sciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.19
Growth of Si Nanowires and Nanowire Arrays by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.

Peter Werner 1 , Alexey Milenin 1 , Nikolai Zakharov 1 , Ulrich Goesele 1
1 , MPI of Microstructure Physics, Halle (Saale) Germany

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9:00 PM - Q10.2
Sonoelectrochemical Synthesis of Single Crystalline Semiconducting Copper Sulfide Nanowires.

Krishna Singh 1 , Alfredo Martinez 2 , Omar Yilmaz 2 , Mihri Ozkan 2
1 Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside, Riverside, California, United States, 2 Electrical Engineering, UC Riverside, Riverside, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.20
Vertically Aligned Growth of Sub-30 nm ZnO Nanowires Using Single-ion Nanolithography.

Daniel Baptista 1 2 , Sharvari Dalal 2 , Ricardo Papaleo 3 , Fernando Zawislak 1 , Paulo Fichtner 4 , Ken Teo 2 , Willian Milne 2
1 Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre Brazil, 2 Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom, 3 Faculdade de Física, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre Brazil, 4 Departamento de Metalurgia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre Brazil

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9:00 PM - Q10.21
Fabrication of Small MgO Nanowires by Pulsed Laser Deposition.

Takeshi Yanagida 1 , Kazuki Nagashima 1 , Hidekazu Tanaka 1 , Tomoji Kawai 1
1 ISIR-Sanken, Osaka University, Osaka Japan

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9:00 PM - Q10.22
Vanadium Dioxides Nanorods: From B Phase to M Phase.

Liqiang Mai 1 2 , Wangli Guo 1 , Tao Hu 1 , Wen Chen 1 , Wei Jin 1 , Bo Hu 1 , Ch.V.Subba Reddy 1
1 Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, 2 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.23
Selective Patterning of Carbon Nanotube added V_2O_5 Nanowire Channel via BOE Treated PDMS Stamping Technique.

Yong-Kwan Kim 1 , So Jeong Park 2 , Gyu Tae Kim 2 , Jeong Sook Ha 1
1 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering , Korea University, Seoul Korea (the Republic of), 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q10.24
Growth Study of CVD Au Catalyzed Silicon Nanowires and Integration in an Organized Nanoporous Alumina Template.

Pascal Gentile 1 , Thomas David 1 , Denis Buttard 1 , Martien Den Hertog 1 , Jean-Luc Rouvière 1 , Pierre Ferret 2 , Florian Dhalluin 3 , Thierry Baron 3
1 DRFMC/SP2M, CEA, Grenoble France, 2 DRT/Leti/DOPT, CEA, Grenoble France, 3 LTM, CNRS, Grenoble France

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9:00 PM - Q10.25
Laser Interference Lithography Tailored for Ordered Arranged ZnO Nanowire Arrays.

Dongsik Kim 1 , Hongjin Fan 1 , Ran Ji 1 , Roland Scholz 1 , Kornelius Nielsch 1 , Ulrich Goesele 1 , Margit Zacharias 2 1
1 Dep. II, MPI of Microstructure Physics, Halle Germany, 2 FWIM, FZ Rossendorf, Dresden Germany

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9:00 PM - Q10.26
A Novel Technique to Synthesize Alumina Nanofibers/Nanotubes.

Anup Pancholi 1 , Copeland Kell 2 , Valeria Stoleru 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States, 2 Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.27
Synthesis and Characterization of Branched Nanowire Heterostructures.

Yeonwoong Jung 1 , Dong-Kyun Ko 1 , Ritesh Agarwal 1
1 Materials Science & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.28
III-V Nanowires Grown by Metal-organic Chemical Vapour Deposition for Optoelectronic Applications.

Yong Kim 1 , Hannah Joyce 1 , Qiang Gao 1 , Hoe Tan 1 , Chennupati Jagadish 1 , Mohanchand Paladugu 2 , Jin Zou 2
1 Electronic Materials Enginering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 2 Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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9:00 PM - Q10.29
Metallothermic Synthesis of Nanowires and Related Nanostructures of Al2O3 and MgO.

Boris Bokhonov 1 , Mikhail Korchagin 1 , Yurii Yukhin 1
1 , Institute of solid state chemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk Russian Federation

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9:00 PM - Q10.3
The Effect of Manganese on VLS Growth of Germanium Nanowires.

Jessica Lensch 1 , Eric Hemesath 1 , Lincoln Lauhon 1
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.30
Controlled Growth of GaN Nanowires by means of Chemical Vapor Deposition on Patterned Substrates.

Zhen Wu 1 , Yung Joon Jung 2 , Latika Menon 1
1 Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.31
Large-Scale, Multifunctional, 2D and 3D Assemblies of Catalytic Nanowires.

Z. Ryan Tian 1 2 3 , Wenjun Dong 1 , Michelle McDonald 1 , Michael Jackson 1 , Andrew Cogbill 1 , Carmen Padilla 2
1 Chemistry/Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States, 2 Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States, 3 Microelectronics and Photonics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.32
Position-controlled Formation of Quantum Dots and Nanowires at Iron Silicide Nanowires.

Zhenyu Liu 1 , Judith Yang 1 , Kyeongjae Cho 2
1 Department of Materials Sci. & Eng., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.33
Ultranarrow Bi2S3 and Sb2S3 Nanowires.

Reihaneh Malakooti 1 , Ludovico Cademartiri 1 , Srebri Petrov 1 , Andrea Migliori 2 , Geoffrey Ozin 1
1 Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2 , CNR-IMM, Bologna Italy

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9:00 PM - Q10.35
Coaxial Homostructure Gallium Nitride Nanowires.

Benjamin Jacobs 1 , Virginia M. Ayres 1 , Martin A. Crimp 2 , Jiaming Zhang 2 , MaoQi He 3 , Joshua B. Halpern 3
1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States, 2 Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States, 3 Department of Chemistry, Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.36
Wafer Scale Fabrication of E-beam Written Suspended TiW Nanowires.

Lauge Gammelgaard 1 , Rudy Wojtecki 1 , Peter Bøggild 1
1 Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby Denmark

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9:00 PM - Q10.37
Carrier Doping of Silicon Nanowires Synthesized by Laser Ablation.

Naoki Fukata 1 3 , Naoya Okada 2 , Satoshi Matsushita 2 , Takao Tsurui 4 , Jun Chen 1 , Takashi Sekiguchi 1 , Noriyuki Uchida 2 3 , Kouichi Murakami 2 3
1 , Advanced Electronic Materials Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba Japan, 3 , Special Research Project on Nanoscience, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Japan, 2 , Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Japan, 4 , Institute for Materials Reseach, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan

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9:00 PM - Q10.38
Large Scale Hierarchical Organization of Nanowires for Integrated Nanosystems

Mathias Steinmair 1 , Erwin Auer 1 , Alois Lugstein 1 , Christoph Schöndorfer 1 , Emmerich Bertagnolli 1
1 Institute of Solid State Electronics, TU Vienna, Vienna Austria

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9:00 PM - Q10.39
ALD Synthesis of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanotubes in AL2O3 Membranes.

Kornelius Nielsch 1 , Mato Knez 1 , Mihaela Daub 1 , Ulrich Gösele 1
1 , Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle Germany

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9:00 PM - Q10.4
General Synthesis and Properties of Novel Transition Metal Silicide Nanowires.

Andrew Schmitt 1 , Lei Zhu 1 , Song Jin 1
1 Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.41
High Performance and Durability of AFM Tips Based on a Carbon-carbon (a-C, CNT) Composite.

Denise Nakabayashi 1 2 , Alberto Moreau 1 , Paulo Silva 2 , Vitor Coluci 1 , Douglas Galvão 1 , Monica Cotta 1 , Daniel Ugarte 1 2
1 Física Aplicada, IFGW-UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil, 2 Lab. Microscopia Eletrônica, Lab. Nac. Luz Síncrotron, Campinas, SP, Brazil

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9:00 PM - Q10.42
Engineering Carbon Nanotube Atomic Force Microscopy Nanoprobes.

Haoyan Wei 1 , Sang Nyon Kim 2 , Minhua Zhao 1 , Sang-Yong Ju 2 , Bryan Huey 1 , Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos 2 , Harris Marcus 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering Program, Department of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States, 2 Nanomaterials Optoelectronics Laboratory, Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.43
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Tip for Scanning Tunneling Microscope.

Winadda Wongwiriyapan 1 , Takafumi Ohmori 1 , Yuya Murata 1 , Kenji Motoyoshi 1 , Hirofumi Konishi 1 , Masaru Kishida 1 , Kenji Kisoda 2 , Hiroshi Harima 3 , Jung-Goo Lee 4 , Hirotaro Mori 4 , Shin-ichi Honda 1 , Mitsuhiro Katayama 1
1 Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka Japan, 2 , Wakayama University, Wakayama Japan, 3 , Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto Japan, 4 Research Center for Ultrahigh Voltage Electron Microscopy, Osaka University, Osaka Japan

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9:00 PM - Q10.44
Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) Characterization and Quality Control.

Mohammad Al-khedher 1 , Chuck Pezeshki 1 , Jeanne McHale 2
1 School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States, 2 Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.46
Organic Doped Carbon Nanotube: Structural, Electronic and Transport Properties.

Rodion Belosludov 1 , Amir Farajian 2 3 , Sang Lee 3 , Hiroshi Mizuseki 3 , Taishi Takenobu 3 , Yoshihiro Iwasa 3 , Yoshiyuki Kawazoe 1 3
1 ARCMG, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States, 3 Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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9:00 PM - Q10.47
Development of Multi Walled Carbon Nanotube p-n Junction Arrays via Micro Contact Printing.

Yamini Yadav 1 , Prasanna Padigi 1 , Xiaoyu Song 1 , Shalini Prasad 1
1 Electical Engineering, Portland State University, Portland , Oregon, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.48
Low Resistance Ohmic Contact Formation Mechanism for Carbon Nanotube Via Determined by Hard X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy.

Daiyu Kondo 1 2 , Mizuhisa Nihei 1 2 , Shintaro Sato 1 2 , Akira Kawabata 1 2 , E. Ikenaga 3 , M. Kobata 3 , J. Kim 3 , K. Kobayashi 3 , S. Komiya 3 , Yuji Awano 1 2
1 Nanotechnology Research Center, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Atsugi Japan, 2 , Fujitsu Limited, Atsugi Japan, 3 , Japan Syncrotron Radiation Research Institute/SPring-8, Hyogo Japan

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9:00 PM - Q10.5
A Novel Growth Method of Single-Crystalline Bi Nanowires.

Wooyoung Shim 1 , Jinhee Ham 1 , Kyoung-il Lee 1 , Joonyeon Chang 2 , Sukhee Han 2 , Wonyoung Jeoung 2 , Mark Johnson 3 , Wooyoung Lee 1
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Yonsei University , Seoul Korea (the Republic of), 2 , Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul Korea (the Republic of), 3 , Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.50
Improvement of X-ray Current Density Using CNT Cold Cathode.

Choi Haeyoung 1 , Won Suk Chang 1 , Joung-uk Kim 1
1 Applied Imaging Research Group, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Sa-1dong, Sangrok-gu, Ansan-shi, Gyeonggi-do Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q10.51
Controlled Carbon Nanotube Networks and its Corresponding Channel Effect at High Bias.

Jun Huang 1 , Harindra Vedala 1 , Bangalore Rao 1 , Do-Hyun Kim 1 , WonBong Choi 1
1 Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.52
Ultra-Large-Scale Fabrication of Individually Contacted Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Devices by A/C-Dielectrophoretic Deposition.

Aravind Vijayaraghavan 1 , Matti Oron-Carl 1 , Simone Dehm 1 , Frank Hennrich 1 , Horst Hahn 1 , Ralph Krupke 1
1 Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Germany

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9:00 PM - Q10.53
Fabrication of Multi-Intramolecular Junctions Array of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Surface by Temperature Oscillated CVD.

Jin Zhang 1 , Yagang Yao 1 , Zhongfan Liu 1
1 College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing China

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9:00 PM - Q10.54
First-Principles Electronic Properties of Graphene Nanostrips.

John Mintmire 1 , Junwen Li 1 , Carter White 2
1 Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States, 2 Code 6189, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.55
Geometry Dependent Resistivity in Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Films Patterned Down to Submicron Dimensions.

Ashkan Behnam 1 , Leila Noriega 1 , Yongho Choi 1 , Zhuangchun Wu 2 , Andrew Rinzler 2 , Ant Ural 1
1 Electrical & Computer Engineering , University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States, 2 Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.56
Contact Transfer of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays onto Conducting Substrates: Low temperature Process for Electronic Applications.

Ashavani Kumar 1 , Rajashree Baskaran 2 , Victor Pushparaj 1 , Swastik Kar 1 , Omkaram Nalamasu 1 , Pulickel Ajayan 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States, 2 Components Research, Intel Corporation, Chandler, Arizona, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.57
Patterning Carbon Nanotube Mat Transistors using Transfer-Printing.

Vinod Sangwan 1 2 , Dan Hines 1 2 , Vincent Ballarotto 2 , Gokhan Esen 1 , Michael Fuhrer 1 , Ellen Williams 1 2
1 Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States, 2 , Laboratory for Physical Sciences , College Park, Maryland, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.58
Enhancement of Field Emission of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes by Thermal Oxidation.

Baoqing Zeng 1 2 , Guangyong Xiong 1 , Shuo Chen 1 , WenZhong Wang 1 , Dezhi Wang 1 , Zhifeng Ren 1
1 Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States, 2 School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu China

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9:00 PM - Q10.60
An Electrically-tunable Ultra Small Liquid Crystal Micro-lens Array based on the Carbon Nanotubes

Xiaozhi Wang 1 , Xin Ji 1 , Timothy Wilkinson 1 , Ian Bu 1 , Kenneth Teo 1 , William Milne 1
1 Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom

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9:00 PM - Q10.61
Directed Linking of Carbon Nanotubes with Single CdSe Quantum Dots.

Kathryn Leach 1 , Todd Krauss 1
1 Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States

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9:00 PM - Q10.62
Influence of chemical dopant technique to reduce Schottky barriers of Pd-contacted CNTFETs

Damian Casterman 1 , Maria De Souza 1
1 Emerging Technologies Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester United Kingdom

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9:00 PM - Q10.7
Molecular Beam Epitaxy III-V Nanowires by Using Group III Metals as a Catalyst.

Dance Spirkoska 1 , Emanuele Uccelli 1 , Max Bichler 1 , Gerhard Abstreiter 1 , Anna Fontcuberta i Morral 1
1 Walter Schottky Institut , Technische Universität München, Garching Germany

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9:00 PM - Q10.8
Synthesis of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes on Silicon Nanowires.

Hideto Yoshida 1 , Tetsuya Uchiyama 1 , Jun Kikkawa 2 , Seiji Takeda 1 3 , Yoshikazu Homma 4 3
1 Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka Japan, 2 Research Institute for Ubiquitous Energy Devices, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka Japan, 3 , CREST, JST, Saitama Japan, 4 Department of Physics, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo Japan

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9:00 PM - Q10.9
A Novel Tin-rich Phase of the Sn-O System Observed at Layered Nanobelts.

Marcelo Orlandi 1 , Matti Mäki-Jaskari 2 , Elson Longo 3 4 , Edson Leite 4
1 Department of Physics and Chemistry, São Paulo State University - UNESP, Ilha Solteira, São Paulo, Brazil, 2 Institute of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere Finland, 3 Institute of Chemistry, São Paulo State University, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil, 4 Department of Chemistry, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

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Symposium Organizers

Prabhakar Bandaru University of California-San Diego
Morinobu Endo Shinshu University
Ian Kinloch University of Cambridge
Apparao M. Rao Clemson University
Q11: Inorganic and Oxide Based Nanowires
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Wednesday AM, November 29, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

9:00 AM - **Q11.1
Inorganic Nanotubes and Fullerene-like Structures (IF): A Progress Report.

Reshef Tenne 1
1 Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot Israel

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9:30 AM - Q11.2
Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of CdTe over Carbon Nanotubes.

Rodolfo Camacho 1 , Stephan Turano 1 , W. Jud Ready 1
1 GTRI-EOSL, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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9:45 AM - Q11.3
SiC Nanowires by Silicon Carburization.

Loucas Tsakalakos 1 , Jody Fronheiser 1 , Larry Rowland 1 , Mohamed Rahmane 1 , Michael Larsen 1 , Yan Gao 1
1 , General Electric - Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, United States

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10:00 AM - **Q11.4
Inorganic Nanowires: Growth and Applications in Electronics and Optoelectronics.

Meyya Meyyappan 1
1 Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States

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10:30 AM - Q11.5
Fabrication of Spinel Nanotubes Based on Kirkendall Effect.

Hongjin Fan 1 , Mato Knez 1 , Roland Scholz 1 , Kornelius Nielsch 1 , Eckhard Pippel 1 , Dietrich Hesse 1 , Margit Zacharias 1 2 , Ulrich Goesele 1
1 Dep. II, MPI of Microstructure Physics, Halle Germany, 2 FWIM, FZ Rossendorf, Dresden Germany

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10:45 AM - Q11.6
Self-organized TiO2 Nanotubes and Their Applications.

Jan Macak 1 , Hiroaki Tsuchiya 1 , Andrei Ghicov 1 , Eugeniu Balaur 1 , Patrik Schmuki 1
1 Dep. of Materials Science, Chair for Surface Science, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

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11:00 AM - Q11
BREAK

Q12: Si/Ge Based Nanowires
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Reshef Tenne
Wednesday PM, November 29, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

11:30 AM - **Q12.1
Carbon Nanotubes, Innovations to Applications.

Wonbong Choi 1
1 Department of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States

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12:00 PM - Q12.2
Synthesis of Heteroepitaxially Aligned Ge Nanowires and Ge/Si Core/Shell Nanowires.

Irene Goldthorpe 1 , Paul McIntyre 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States

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12:15 PM - Q12.3
Feasibility of Si Nanowire Integration: CVD Growth, Characterization and Comparison of Au vs PtSi Catalysts.

Baron Thierry 1 , Michael Gordon 1 , Florian Dhalluin 1 , Martien Den Hertog 3 , Pierre Ferret 2 , Pascal Gentile 3 , Celine Ternon 1 , Karim Aissou 1 , Jean-Luc Rouviere 3
1 LTM, CNRS, Grenoble France, 3 , CEA/DRFMC, Grenoble France, 2 , CEA/DRT, Grenoble France

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12:30 PM - Q12.4
Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Au-Ge Liquidus Behavior in Germanium Nanowire Nucleation and Growth.

Hemant Adhikari 1 , Ann Marshall 2 , Christopher Chidsey 3 , Paul McIntyre 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States, 2 Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States, 3 Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States

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12:45 PM - Q12.5
Silicon Nanowire Synthesis on Metal Implanted Silicon Substrates.

Thomas Stelzner 1 2 , Gudrun Andrae 2 , Elke Wendler 1 , Werner Wesch 1 , Danilo Zschech 3 , Martin Steinhart 3 , Alexey Milenin 3 , Ulrich Goesele 3 , Silke Christiansen 3 4
1 Institute of Solid State Physics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena Germany, 2 Laser Technology, Institute of Physical High Technology, Jena Germany, 3 , Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle Germany, 4 Physics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle Germany

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Q13: Electrical Characterization of CNTs
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Wednesday PM, November 29, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

2:30 PM - **Q13.1
Nanogenerators – Working Principle and Potential Applications.

Zhong Wang 1
1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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3:00 PM - Q13.2
Dynamic Response of Carbon Nnanotube Field-effect Transistors in the GHz Range Analysed by S-parameters Measurements.

Jean-Marc Bethoux 2 , Henri Happy 2 , Gilles Dambrine 2 , Vincent Derycke 1 , Marcelo Goffman 1 , Jean-Philippe Bourgoin 1
2 , IEMN, Villeneuve d'Ascq France, 1 SPEC, CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette France

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3:15 PM - Q13.3
Radio Frequency Conductivity Measurements of Silicon Nanowire Networks.

Wenchong Hu 1 , Alexey Kovalev 1 , Sarah Dilts 2 , Yanfeng Wang 1 , Bangzhi Liu 2 , Suzanne Mohney 1 , Joan Redwing 1 , Theresa Mayer 1
1 Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, Pennsylvania, United States, 2 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States

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3:30 PM - Q13.4
Frequency-Dependent Capacitance of Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Transistors Fabricated on SiO2 for Chemical Sensing Applications.

Gokhan Esen 1 2 , Michael Fuhrer 1 2 , Jian Chen 1 3 , Masa Ishigami 1 3 , Ellen Williams 1 3
1 Physics, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States, 2 Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States, 3 Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States

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3:45 PM - Q13.5
Effects of Current-Induced Annealing on Charge and Spin Transport in Carbon Nanotube Devices.

Chen-Wei Liang 1 , Serhat Sahakalkan 1 , Siegmar Roth 1
1 , Max-Planck-Institute, Stuttgart Germany

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4:00 PM - Q13
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Q14: Field Emission and Electrical Devices
Session Chairs
Andrew Rinzler
Wednesday PM, November 29, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

4:30 PM - **Q14.1
Cold Cathode Applications of Carbon Nanotubes.

William Milne 1
1 Electrical Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom

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5:00 PM - Q14.2
In search of Potential Cold Cathodes: Are Carbon Nanotubes the Candidate?

Sanju Gupta 1
1 Physics and Materials Science, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, United States

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5:15 PM - Q14.3
Quantum Transport and Trap Effects in Tunneling Rate Measurements of Metal Nanocrystal Based Carbon Nanotube Memory.

Udayan Ganguly 1 2 , Tuo-Hung Hou 3 , Edwin Kan 3
1 Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research, Moffet Field, California, United States, 2 Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering , Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States, 3 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States

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5:30 PM - Q14.4
A Compact Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Transistor Integrated with Silicon MOSFET Using a Single Common Gate.

Hao Lin 1 , Yong Park 2 , Sandip Tiwari 3
1 Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States, 2 , Namseoul University, Chonan-si Korea (the Republic of), 3 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States

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5:45 PM - Q14.5
Synthesis of Metal-Oxide-Metal (MOM) Heterojunction Nanowires for Chemical Sensing, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Functions.

Edward Herderick 1 , Jason Tresback 1 , Alexander Vasiliev 1 , Nitin Padture 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States

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Q15: Poster Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Electrical Properties & Devices
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Morinobu Endo
Ian Kinloch
Apparao Rao
Thursday AM, November 30, 2006
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)

9:00 PM - Q15.1
Length Characterization of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes using Resonance Raman Spectroscopy.

Shin Chou 1 , H. Son 2 , M. Zheng 3 , Ado Jorio 4 , R. Saito 5 , Gene Dresselhaus 6 , Mildred Dresselhaus 2 7
1 Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 EECS, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 3 DuPont Central Research and Development, Experimental Station, , Wilmington, Delaware, United States, 4 Physics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte Brazil, 5 Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan, 6 Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 7 Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.10
Wide Bandgap Semiconductors - Nanowires of p- and n-type Silicon Carbide

Bettina Friedel 1 , Siegmund Greulich-Weber 1
1 Department of Physics, University of Paderborn, Paderborn Germany

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9:00 PM - Q15.11
Electric Field Dependence of the Raman Spectra in Single-wall Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Networks.

Giovanni Fanchini 1 , Husnu Unalan 1 , Manish Chhowalla 1
1 , Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.12
Measurement of Minority Carrier Diffusion Lengths in Semiconductor Nanowires.

Jonathan Allen 1 , Yi Gu 1 , Eric Hemesath 1 , Lincoln Lauhon 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.13
Absorption Cross Section and Quantum Efficiency of Pristine and Boron-doped Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Jeffrey Blackburn 1 , Timothy McDonald 1 2 , Thomas Gennett 1 3 , Yanfa Yan 1 , Kim Jones 1 , Chaiwat Engtrakul 1 , Kelly Knutson 1 , Randy Ellingson 1 , Garry Rumbles 1 , Michael Heben 1
1 Basic Science, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado, United States, 2 Applied Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States, 3 Chemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.14
aF Resolution C-V Characterization of Nano-scale FETs Using Ambient Noise and Non-linearities.

Ali Gokirmak 1 , Hazer Inaltekin 1
1 Electrical and Computer Engineering , Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.15
Ternary PtRuNi Nanocatalysts Dispersed on Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes for Methanol Electro-oxidation in Acid Medium.

Yu-Kuei Hsu 1 , Wei-Horng Su 1 2 , Yan-Gu Lin 3 4 , Ju-Lan Yang 3 , Chia-Liang Sun 1 , San-Yuan Chen 3 , Chii-Ruey Lin 2 , Kuei-Hsien Chen 1 4 , Li-Chyong Lin 4
1 , Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan, 2 , Institite of Mechatronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei Taiwan, 3 , Los Alamos National Lab, Hsinchu Taiwan, 4 , Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei Taiwan

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9:00 PM - Q15.16
FET Properties of Surface Silylated Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes.

Ryotaro Kumashiro 1 7 , Nobuya Hiroshiba 1 , Hirotaka Ohashi 1 , Takeshi Akasaka 2 , Yutaka Maeda 3 , Shinzo Suzuki 4 , Yohji Achiba 5 , Rikizo Hatakeyama 6 , Katsumi Tanigaki 1 7
1 Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan, 7 CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi Japan, 2 Center for Tsukuba, Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Japan, 3 Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo Japan, 4 Faculty of Science, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto Japan, 5 Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo Japan, 6 Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan

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9:00 PM - Q15.17
Performance of Thin Film Transistors from Brominated Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Networks.

Giovanni Fanchini 1 , Husnu Unalan 1 , Manish Chhowalla 1
1 , Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.18
Ba6Mn24O48 Whiskers: A New Material for Batteries, Sensors and Catalysis.

Ekaterina Pomerantseva 1 , Eugene Goodilin 1 , Marina Kozlova 1 , Valery Krivetsky 2 , Lyudmila Leonova 2 , Yuri Dobrovolsky 2 , Yuri Tretyakov 1
1 Department of Materials Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Russian Federation, 2 , Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka Russian Federation

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9:00 PM - Q15.19
Rare Earth Implanted Nanowires.

Sebastian Geburt 1 , Daniel Stichtenoth 1 , Sven Müller 1 , Wilma Dewald 1 , Quan Li 2 , Carsten Ronning 1
1 II. Institute of Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen Germany, 2 Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin Hong Kong

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9:00 PM - Q15.2
Raman Spectroscopy Studies on Pure Carbon Nanotube Fibres.

Anna Moisala 1 , Marcelo Motta 1 , Ian Kinloch 1 , Alan Windle 1
1 Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambs., United Kingdom

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9:00 PM - Q15.20
Morphology and Optical Properties of ZnO Nanorods Grown by Catalyst-assisted Vapor Transport on Various Substrates.

Vitaliy Avrutin 1 , U. Ozgur 1 , N. Izyumskaya 1 , S. Chevtchenko 1 , J. Leach 1 , J. Moore 2 , A. Baski 2 1 , H. Everitt 3 , K. Tsen 4 , M. Abouzaid 5 , P. Ruterana 5 , H. Morkoc 1 2
1 Department of Electrical and Compputer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States, 2 Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States, 3 , Army Aviation & Missile RDEC, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, United States, 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States, 5 SIFCOM, UMR 6176 CNRS-ENSICAEN, Caen France

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9:00 PM - Q15.21
Experimentally Determined Absorption Cross-sections of Solution-based CdSe and CdTe Nanowires.

Vladimir Protasenko 1 , Daniel Bacinello 1 , Masaru Kuno 1
1 Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.22
Ultraviolet GaN Single Nanowire Light Emitting Diode.

Mariano Zimmler 1 , Jiming Bao 1 , Joonah Yoon 1 2 , George Seryogin 1 , Ilan Shalish 1 , Venkatesh Narayanamurti 1 , Federico Capasso 1
1 Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.23
Active Semiconductor Nanowires for Functional Photonic Circuit Elements

Carl Barrelet 1 , Hong Gyu Park 1 , Yongning Wu 1 , Charles Lieber 1 2
1 Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.24
Raman Scattering Studies on Br2-doped Double Wall Carbon Nanotubes.

Antonio Souza 1 , Morinobu Endo 3 , H. Muramatsu 3 , T. Hayashi 4 , Y. Kim 3 , Eduardo Barros 1 , Riichiro Saito 5 , Ge Samsonidze 2 , Mildred Dresselhaus 2
1 Física, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, 3 Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University,, Nagano Japan, 4 , Tokyo National College, Tokyo Japan, 5 Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Tohoku, Japan, 2 Electrical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.25
Optical Properties of 55Mn Implanted ZnS Nanowires.

Daniel Stichtenoth 1 , Sebastian Geburt 1 , Carsten Ronning 1 , Tobias Niebling 2 , Peter J. Klar 2
1 II. Institute of Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen Germany, 2 Physics and Material Sciences Center, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg Germany

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9:00 PM - Q15.27
Investigation of the Epitaxial Growth of Zinc Oxide Nanowires on Sapphire by Grazing Incident Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction.

Rodrigo Lacerda 1 , Leonardo Campos 1 , Roberto Magalhães-Paniago 1 , Andre Ferlauto 1 , Sharvari Dalal 2 , Daniel Batista 2 , Sergio Oliveira 1 , W. Milne 2 , Luiz Ladeira 1
1 Departamento de Física, ICEX, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2 Engineering Department, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK, United Kingdom

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9:00 PM - Q15.28
Investigation of the Optical Gap in Ge Nano-wires.

Scott Beckman 1 , Jiaxin Han 2 , James Chelikowsky 1 2 3
1 Center for Computational Materials, Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States, 2 Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States, 3 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.29
Comparative Raman Spectroscopy Study of Single-Wall and Double-Wall Carbon Nanotube Systems Doped with H2SO4.

Eduardo Barros 1 , Antonio Souza Filho 1 , HyungBin Son 3 , Yoong-Ahm Kim 2 , Hiroyuki Muramatsu 2 , Takuya Hayashi 2 , Morinobu Endo 2 , Mildred Dresselhaus 3
1 Physics, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortaleza Brazil, 3 Electrical Engeneering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Electrical And Electronic Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano Japan

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9:00 PM - Q15.3
EDLC Properties Depend on the Diameter of Mass Produced Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Yong-Jung Kim 1 , Yusuke Abe 2 , Takashi Yanagiura 2 , Masaaki Kitani 2 , Tsuyoshi Kodama 2 , Keita Higuchi 2 , Morinobu Endo 1 2
1 , Institute of Carbon Science & Technology, Shinshu University, Nagano, Nagano, Japan, 2 Eletrical and electronics engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Nagano, Japan

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9:00 PM - Q15.30
Atomically Resolved Imaging on an Epitaxially Grown Silver Nanorod Surface.

Saw Hla 1 , Albert Prodan 2 , Herman van Midden 2
1 Physics & Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States, 2 Solid State Physics, J Stefan Institute, Ljubljana Slovenia

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9:00 PM - Q15.31
Determination of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Carbon Nanotubes by Resonant Raman Scattering.

Yan Yin 1 , A. Vamivakas 2 , A. Walsh 1 , S. Cronin 3 , M. Unlu 2 1 , B. Goldberg 1 2 , A. Swan 2 1
1 Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 3 Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.32
Analysis of Carbon Nanomaterials Using Tip-Enhanced Near-Field Raman Spectroscopy.

Prabhat Verma 1 , Taka-aki Yano 1 , Yasushi Inouye 2 , Satoshi Kawata 1
1 Applied Physica, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, 2 Dept. of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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9:00 PM - Q15.33
Fabrication of Omega-shaped-gate ZnO Nanowire Field Effect Transistors.

Kihyun Keem 1 , Dong-Young Jeong 2 , Sangsig Kim 1 , Moon-Sook Lee 3 , In-Seok Yeo 3 , U-In Chung 3 , Joo-Tae Moon 3
1 Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul Korea (the Republic of), 2 Institue for Nano Science, Korea University, Seoul Korea (the Republic of), 3 Memory Division R&D Center, Samsung Electronics Co., Yongin-City Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q15.34
Electrical Properties of Metal Doped Vanadium Pentoxide Nanofibers.

Pil Soo Kang 1 , Hyeyeon Ryu 1 , Seongmin Yee 1 , Gyu-Tae Kim 1 , G. s. Zakharova 2 , V. l. Volkov 2
1 School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul Korea (the Republic of), 2 Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Ural Division Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg Russian Federation

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9:00 PM - Q15.35
Electrical Property of Single Crystalline Dilute Magnetic GaMnN Nanowires.

Choi Sung-Churl 1 , Byeun Yun-Ki 1 2 , Lee Jin-Seok 1 , Han Kyoung-Sop 2
1 ceramic engineering, hanyang univeristy, Seoul Korea (the Republic of), 2 Material science, Korea Institute Science and Tehcnology, Seoul Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q15.36
Dielectrophoretically Aligned GaN Nanowire p-n Junction Diodes.

Sang-Kwon Lee 1 , Tae-Hong Kim 1 , Seung-Yong Lee 1 , Duk-Il Suh 1 , Wook Bahng 2 , Nam-Kyun Kim 2
1 Dept. of Semiconductor Science and Technology, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju Korea (the Republic of), 2 Power Semiconductor Group, Korea Electrotechnology Research Insitute, Changwon Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q15.37
Electrical Transport in Vanadium Oxide Nanowires.

Jitae Park 1 , Eunmo Lee 1 , Kyu Won Lee 1 , Cheol Eui Lee 1
1 Physics, Korea University, Seoul Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q15.38
Dielectrophoretic Alignment and Fabrication Technique for Realizing GaN Nanowire Devices.

Abhishek Motayed 1 2 , Albert Davydov 1 , Maoqi He 3 , John Melngailis 2 , S. Mohammad 4 3
1 MSEL, Metallurgy, NIST, GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, United States, 2 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States, 3 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 4 Dept. of Material Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.39
Theoretical and Experimental Study on Transport Properties of the One-dimensional Electron Gas in an InAlAs/InGaAs Quantum-wire System.

Ilho Ahn 1 , Sung Geun Kim 1 , Jhang W. Lee 2 , Yong Tak Lee 1 , G. Hugh Song 1
1 Information and communication, GIST, Gwangju, Geon-nam, Korea (the Republic of), 2 , Kowon Technology, Yongin, Geonggi-do, Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q15.4
Four-Terminal Conductivity Measurement Using PtIr-Coated Carbon Nanotube STM Tips.

Shinya Yoshimoto 1 , K. Kubo 1 , H. Okino 1 , R. Hobara 1 , I. Matsuda 1 , Y. Murata 2 , H. Konishi 2 , M. Kishida 2 , S. Honda 2 , M. Katayama 2 , S. Hasegawa 1
1 Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan, 2 Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka Japan

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9:00 PM - Q15.40
In-situ Characterization of Electronic Properties of a Single ZnO Nanowire

Xudong Wang 1 , Jun Zhou 1 , Zhong Wang 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.41
Size-dependent Conductance Behavior of [110] Gold Nanowire.

Kurui Yoshihiko 1 , Oshima Yoshifumi 2 3 , Okamoto Masakuni 4 , Takayanagi Kunio 1 3
1 Condenced Matter Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, 2 Matterials Science and Engineerings, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 3 , CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan, 4 Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory , Hitachi Ltd., Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan

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9:00 PM - Q15.42
Electrical Conductivity and Optical Properties of Ultra-Thin Gold Nanowires.

Aditi Halder 1 , Bratindranath Mukherjee 1 , Ravishankar Narayanan 1
1 Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India

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9:00 PM - Q15.43
Determination of the Electrical Properties of the Well-Aligned ZnO Nanorods on Si Substrates using AC Impedance Analysis.

Jih-Jen Wu 1 , Daniel Kwan-Pang Wong 1
1 Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan Taiwan

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9:00 PM - Q15.44
ZnO Nanowire Field-effect Transistor Based on the Edge Defined Lithography.

Hyun-Wook Ra 1 , Sang Hoon Kim 2 , Song Yi Jo 2 , Kwang Sung Choi 2 , Yoon Bong Hahn 2 , Yeon Ho Im 2
1 Semiconductor Physics Research Center, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk, Korea (the Republic of), 2 School of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Nanomaterials Processing Research Centre, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk, Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q15.45
Lateral and Vertical Silicon Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors.

Mikael Bjork 1 , Oliver Hayden 1 , Heike Riel 1 , Heinz Schmid 1 , Siegfried Karg 1 , Ute Drechsler 1 , Walter Riess 1 , Volker Schmidt 2 , Stephan Senz 2 , Ulrich Goesele 2
1 , IBM Research GmbH, Ruschlikon Switzerland, 2 , Max Planck Institute, Halle Germany

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9:00 PM - Q15.46
Carbon/Boron Nitride Nanotube Superlattices.

Serena Povia 1 , Stephanie Reich 1
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), Massachussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.47
Chalcogenide Nanowire Devices for Highly Scalable Phase Transition Memory.

Se-Ho Lee 1 , Yeonwoong Jung 1 , Dong-Kyun Ko 1 , Ritesh Agarwal 1
1 Mat. Sci. & Eng., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.48
Electronic and Optical Properties of SiONWs Grown from a Patterned Reagent: An EELS Study.

Feng Wang 1 2 , Marek Malac 1 2 , Ray Egerton 2 1
1 , National Instiute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2 Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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9:00 PM - Q15.49
Fabrication and Electrical Characterization of InGaAs Nanowires by Selective-area MOVPE.

Jinichiro Noboriska 1 , Takuya Sato 1 , Junichi Motohisa 1 , Shinjiro Hara 1 , Takashi Fukui 1
1 Graduate school of Information Science and Technology and Research Center for Integrated Quantum Electronics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan

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9:00 PM - Q15.50
Intrinsic Characteristics of Semiconducting Oxide Nanobelt Field-Effect Transistors and Their Applications.

Yi Cheng 1 , Peng Xiong 1 , Lenwood Fields 2 , Jim P. Zheng 2 , Rusen Yang 3 , Zhong Lin Wang 3
1 Physics Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States, 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, FAMU/FSU College of Engineering, Tallahassee, Florida, United States, 3 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.51
Ab initio Study of the Electronic Structures and Optical Properties of ZnO Single-wall Nanotubes.

Shelly Elizondo 1 , John Mintmire 1
1 Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.52
Growth, Structure, and Doping of Gold-Catalyzed Si Nanowires: A First Principles Study.

Soohwan Lee 1 , Kyoung-Eun Kwon 1 , Gyeong Hwang 1
1 Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.53
Ab-initio Study of Erbium Silicide Nanowire Formation on Si (001) Surface.

Tejodher Muppidi 1 , Vidvuds Ozolins 1
1 Material Science and Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.54
Single Crystalline Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Mn:Ge Nanowires.

Tae-Hyun Lee 1 , Han-Kyu Seong 1 2 , Hee-Chul Han 1 , Ryong Ha 1 , Kyeong-Sop Han 2 , Jae-Gwan Park 2 , Heon-Jin Choi 1
1 School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University , Seoul Korea (the Republic of), 2 Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q15.55
Freely Suspended Silver Nanowires.

Ray Gunawidjaja 1 2 , Chaoyang Jiang 1 2 , Hyunhyub Ko 1 2 , Sergiy Peleshanko 1 2 , Maryna Ornatska 1 2 , Srikanth Singamaneni 1 2 , Vladimir Tsukruk 1 2
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States, 2 School of Materials Science and Engineering , Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.57
Chemically Functionalized Silicon Nanowires for EWOD Actuation and Matrix-Free Mass Spectrometry Analysis.

Rabah Boukherroub 1 2 , Nicolas Verplanck 2 , Yannick Coffinier 1 2 , Gaëlle Piret 1 2 , Vincent Thomy 2 , Isabelle Fournier 3 , Michel Salzet 3 , Jean-Christophe Camart 2
1 Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire (IRI), CNRS, Villeneuve d'Ascq France, 2 Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, CNRS, Villeneuve d'Ascq France, 3 Laboratoire de Neuroimmunologie des Annélides, Université Lille1, Villeneuve d'Ascq France

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9:00 PM - Q15.58
Debundling by Dilution: Observation of Large Populations of Individual MoSI Nanowires in High Concentration Dispersions.

Valeria Nicolosi 1 , Damjan Vengust 2 , Dragan Mihailovic 2 3 , Werner Blau 1 , Jonathan Coleman 1
1 School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Ireland, 2 , Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana Slovenia, 3 , Mo6, Ljubljana Slovenia

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9:00 PM - Q15.59
Nanorods of the Concentrated Ferromagnetic Semiconductor EuO: Synthesis and Physical Properties.

Matthew Bierman 1 , Song Jin 1
1 , University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Wisconsin, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.6
Tunneling Electron Transport of Silicon Nanochains Studied by in-situ Scanning Electron Microscopy.

Hideo Kohno 1 , Seiji Takeda 1
1 , Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

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9:00 PM - Q15.60
Piezoelectric Versus Carbon Nanotube Actuators.

Hossein Golnabi 1 , Amir Nikjo 1 , Afshin Asadpour 1 , Mahmod Ghorannevis 1
1 , Islamic Azad University, Tehran Iran (the Islamic Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q15.7
Electronic and Mechanical Properties of Super Carbon Nanotube Networks.

Vitor Coluci 1 , Socrates Dantas 2 , Ado Jorio 3 , Douglas Galvao 1
1 Applied Physics, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2 Physics Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora , Minas Gerais, Brazil, 3 Physics Department, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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9:00 PM - Q15.8
Three-way Electrical Gating Characteristics of Metallic Y-junction Carbon Nanotubes.

Jeongwon Park 1 , Prabhakar Bandaru 1 , Apparao Rao 2
1 Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States, 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15.9
Defect Induced Enhancement of Carrier Transport in Individual Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes and their Networks.

Saurabh Agrawal 1 , Makala Raghuveer 1 , Rampi Ramprasad 2 , Ganapathiraman Ramanath 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States, 2 Department of Materials Science and Engineering & Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States

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9:00 PM - Q15
Q15.61 Transferrred to E4.6

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Symposium Organizers

Prabhakar Bandaru University of California-San Diego
Morinobu Endo Shinshu University
Ian Kinloch University of Cambridge
Apparao M. Rao Clemson University
Q16: Thermal Properties & Energy Storage
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Thursday AM, November 30, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

9:00 AM - Q16.1
In-Situ TEM Thermoelectric Property Measurements of Nanowires and Carbon Nanotubes.

Tom Harris 1 , Chris Dames 1 , Shuo Chen 2 , Zhifeng Ren 2 , Millie Dresselhaus 3 4 , Gang Chen 1
1 Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States, 3 Electrical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 4 Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:15 AM - Q16.2
Thermal Transport in MWNT Sheet.

Ali Aliev 1 , Mei Zhang 1 , Shaoli Fang 1 , Anvar Zakhidov 1 , Ray Baughman 1
1 NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States

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9:30 AM - Q16.3
Dependence of the Raman Spectrum of Silicon Nanowires on the Wire Environment.

Harald Scheel 1 , S. Reich 2 , A. Ferrari 3 , M. Cantoro 3 , A. Colli 3 , C. Thomsen 1
1 Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin Germany, 2 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 3 Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom

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9:45 AM - Q16.4
Carbon Nanotube-Enhanced Carbon-Phenenolic Ablator Material.

Pavel Nikolaev 1 , Mairead Stackpoole 3 , Wendy Fan 4 , Brett Cruden 4 , Mike Waid 2 , Padraig Moloney 2 , Sivaram Arepalli 1 , James Arnold 4 , Harry Partridge 5 , Leonard Yowell 2
1 , ERC Inc./NASA-JSC, Houston, Texas, United States, 3 , Eloret Corporation / NASA-ARC, San Jose, California, United States, 4 University Affiliated Research Center, University of California Santa Cruz / NASA-ARC, Santa Cruz, California, United States, 2 , NASA-JSC, Houston, Texas, United States, 5 , NASA-ARC, San Jose, California, United States

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10:00 AM - Q16.5
Carbon Nanotube as Loading Component to Efficiently Lower the Freezing Point in the 50% Water /50% Anti-freezing Coolant or Ethylene Glycol System.

Haiping Hong 1 , Jesse Wensel 1 , Walter Roy 2
1 Material and Metallurgical Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, 2 , Army Research lab, Arbdeen , Maryland, United States

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10:15 AM - Q16.6
Inorganic Nanotubes for Energy Storage: An Ab Initio Study.

Kevin Tibbetts 1 , Caetano Miranda 1 , Ying Meng 1 , Gerbrand Ceder 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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10:30 AM - Q16.7
Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers for Energy Storage Applications.

Kiu-Yuen Tse 1 , Viacheslav Dementiev 1 , Lingzhi Zhang 1 , Sarah Baker 1 , Patrick Warf 1 , Robert West 1 , Robert Hamers 1
1 Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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10:45 AM - Q16.8
Lithium Capacity and Electrochemical Performance of Boron Doped Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes.

Thomas Gennett 1 3 , R. Morris 2 , Jeffrey Blackburn 3 , Brett Gall 2 , Brian Dixon 2 , Michael Heben 3
1 Chemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, United States, 3 , National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, United States, 2 , Phoenix Innovation, West Wareham, Massachusetts, United States

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11:00 AM - Q16
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Q17: Nanowires and Nanotube Photonics
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Thursday PM, November 30, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

11:30 AM - **Q17.1
Nanowire Photonics.

Peidong Yang 1 , Peter Pauzauskie 1
1 Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States

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12:00 PM - **Q17.2
Carbon Nanotube Transistors and their Interaction with Light.

Marcus Freitag 1
1 , IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States

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12:30 PM - Q17.3
Optical Scanning and Integration of Subwavelength Semiconductor Nanowires.

Peter Pauzauskie 1 2 , Aleksandra Radenovic 3 4 , Jan Liphardt 3 4 , Yuri Nakamura 1 , Peidong Yang 1 2
1 Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States, 2 Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States, 3 Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States, 4 Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States

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12:45 PM - Q17.4
Electric Field Quenching of Carbon Nanotube Fluorescence.

Anton Naumov 1 , Dmitri Tsyboulski 2 , Sergei Bachilo 2 , R. Bruce Weisman 2
1 Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States, 2 Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States

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Q18: Photonic Applications and Phenomena II
Session Chairs
Marcus Freitag
Thursday PM, November 30, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

2:30 PM - **Q18.1
Progress in Transparent, Conductive, Carbon Nanotube Thin Films.

Andrew Rinzler 1 , John Reynolds 2 , Zhuangchun Wu 1 , Bo Liu 1 , Rajib Das 1
1 Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States, 2 Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States

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3:00 PM - Q18.2
Auger Recombination and Many-Body Interactions of Excitons in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Libai Huang 1 , Todd Krauss 1
1 Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States

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3:15 PM - Q18.3
Non Exponential and Non-local Blinking Kinetics of CdSe Nanowires.

Vladimir Protasenko 1 , Darren Peterson 1 , Masaru Kuno 1
1 Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States

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3:30 PM - Q18.4
Absorption Cross-Sections and Fluorescence Quantum Yields of Structure-Selected Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs) Quantified with Near-IR Fluorescence Microscopy.

Dmitri Tsyboulski 1 , John-David Rocha 1 , Sergei Bachilo 1 , R. Bruce Weisman 1
1 Chemistry, Rice Universtiy, Houston, Texas, United States

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3:45 PM - Q18.5
Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Organic Optoelectronic Applications.

Carla Aguirre 1 2 , Patrick Desjardins 1 2 , Richard Martel 3 2
1 Département de génie physique, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 2 , Regroupement québécois sur les matériaux de pointe, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 3 Département de chimie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

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4:00 PM - Q18
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Q19: Characterization and Optical Properties of Nanowires
Session Chairs
Jose Menendez
Thursday PM, November 30, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

4:30 PM - Q19.1
Composition Analysis of Single Si Nanowires Using Pulsed Laser Atom Probe Tomography.

Daniel Perea 1 , Eric Hemesath 1 , Jessica Lensch 1 , Lincoln Lauhon 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States

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4:45 PM - Q19.2
Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Analysis by Photoluminescence and Raman Microscopy: Rapid, Robust Acquisition and Simulation of Quantum and Chiral Maps to Ease Structural Assignments.

Adam Gilmore 1 , Fran Adar 1 , Eunah Lee 1 , Ray Kaminski 1 , Andrew Whitley 1
1 , Horiba Jobin Yvon, Edison, New Jersey, United States

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5:00 PM - Q19.3
Direct Observation of the Optical Near-field Energy Transfer Among the Resonant Energy States Between ZnO Nanorod Double-quantum-well Structures.

Takashi Yatsui 1 , Suguru Sangu 2 , Tadashi Kawazoe 1 , Motoichi Ohtsu 3 1 , Jinkyoung Yoo 4 5 , Sung Jin An 4 5 , Gyu-Chul Yi 4 5
1 SORST, JST, Machida Japan, 2 Advanced Technology R&D Center, Ricoh Co., Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 3 School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Bunko-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 4 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Gyungbuk, Korea (the Republic of), 5 , National CRI Center for Semiconductor Nanorods, Pohang, Gyungbuk, Korea (the Republic of)

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5:15 PM - Q19.4
Growth and Characterization of GeO2 Nano- and Microwires with Lightguiding Behaviour.

Pedro Hidalgo 1 , Bianchi Mendez 1 , Javier Piqueras 1
1 Materials Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid Spain

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5:30 PM - Q19.5
TiO2 Nanotubes: Synthesis, Characterisation And Application.

Dominik Eder 1 2 , Winfried Jochum 2 , Ian Kinloch 1 , Reinhard Kramer 2 , Alan Windle 1
1 Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom, 2 Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck Austria

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5:45 PM - Q19.6
ZnSe Nanorings and their Cathodoluminescence.

Lei Jin 1 2 , Yp Leung 1 , Wallace Choy 1 , Jianbo Wang 2 , Ti Yuk 1
1 Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Kong, 2 Physics, Wuhan University, Wuhan China

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Q20: Poster Session: Thermal, Optical and Mechanical Properties and Applications: Biological Interactions
Session Chairs
Prabhakar Bandaru
Morinobu Endo
Ian Kinloch
Apparao Rao
Friday AM, December 01, 2006
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)

9:00 PM - Q20.1
Self-Assembled Conductive Network of Carbon Nanotubes nn Polyaniline Forming Potential Nanocomposites.

Sanju Gupta 1 , Vincent Kandagor 1 , Rishi Patel 1 , Yiwei Ding 2 , Robert Hauge 3
1 Physics and Materials Science, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, United States, 2 , Crosslink Inc, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 3 Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.11
Electroactive Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites for Sensors and Actuators

Jin Ho Kang 1 4 , Cheol Park 1 4 , Amy Brazin 2 , James High 3 , Sharon Lowther 4 , Harrison Harrison 4
1 , National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton , Virginia, United States, 4 AMPB, NASA LaRC, Hampton , Virginia, United States, 2 Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 3 TDIB, NASA LaRC, Hampton , Virginia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.12
Preparation of Nanocomposite Carbon Fiber with Functionalized Single Wall Carbon Nanotube.

Bo Yi 1 , Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan 2 , Henry Foley 1 2 3
1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 2 Material Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 3 Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.13
Micromachined Silicon Grids for Direct TEM Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes Grown by CVD.

Yongho Choi 1 , Jason Johnson 1 , Ryan Moreau 1 , Eric Perozziello 2 , Ant Ural 1
1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States, 2 , Stanford Nanofabrication Facility, Stanford, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.14
Study on the Synthesis of CNTs and the Fabrication of CNTs-Based MEA for DMFC Application.

Chun-Hsi Su 1 , Chii-Ruey Lin 1 , Hsin-Chin Hung 1
1 Institute of Manufacturing Technology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei Taiwan

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9:00 PM - Q20.15
Novel Functional Nanocomposites based on Filled Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Andrey Eliseev 1 , Marina Chernysheva 1 , Alexey Lukashin 1 , Yuri Tretyakov 1 , Sergey Savilov 2 , Nikolay Kiselev 3 , Olga Zhigalina 3 , Andrey Kumskov 3 , Anatoly Krestinin 4 , John Hutchison 5
1 Dept. of Materials Science, Moscow State University, Moscow Russian Federation, 2 Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow Russian Federation, 3 , Institute of Crystallography, Moscow Russian Federation, 4 , Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka Russian Federation, 5 Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford United Kingdom

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9:00 PM - Q20.16
Novel Composites and Devices Based on Polymer-Free Carbon Nanotube Fibers.

Mikhail Kozlov 1 , David Novitski 1 , Jiyoung Oh 1 , Ryan Capps 1 , Ernest Kozlov 1 , Kailing Cai 1 , Semen Abramov 1 , Theja Lanka 1 , Ray Baughman 1
1 NanoTech Inst., Universty of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.17
Covalent Bond Formation in Defected Nanopeapods Induces Local Deformations on Nanotube Walls.

Takashi Yumura 1 , Miklos Kertesz 1
1 Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington , District of Columbia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.18
Strain-based Electrical Properties of Systems of Carbon Nanotubes Embedded in Parylene.

Jon Brame 1 , Johnathan Goodsell 1 , Stephanie Getty 2 , David Allred 1
1 Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States, 2 Materials Engineering Branch, Code 541, NASA -- Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.19
The Role of Twinning in Shape Evolution of Anisotropic Noble Metal Nanostructures.

Miguel Jose Yacaman 1 , Jose Luis Elechiguerra 1 , Jose Reyes 2
1 Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States, 2 Instituo de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico, D.F., Mexico

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9:00 PM - Q20.2
Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes / Polyvinyl Alcohol Composites Produced by Electrospinning.

David Blond 1 , Leslie Carpenter 1 , Joe Mc Cauley 1 , Umar Khan 1 , Werner Blau 1 , Jonathan Coleman 1
1 school of physics, TCD, Dublin Ireland

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9:00 PM - Q20.20
Structure and Nano-mechanics of CNT/a-SiC Composites via Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

Maxim Makeev 1 , Deepak Srivastava 1 , Madhu Menon 2
1 , NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States, 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.21
Use of Electrochemical Deposition and Hyperthermal Proton Bombardment to Fabricate Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube Adherent Coatings with Improved Cohesive Strength.

Ching Yeung Choi 1 2 , Kai Wai Wong 1 2 , Zhi Zheng 3 , Zao Liang Du 4 , Ru Xu Du 1 , Leo Lau 5
1 , Institute of Precision Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Kong, 2 Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Kong, 3 , Institute of Surface Micro and Nano Materials, Xuchang Uiversity, Xuchang China, 4 , Laboratory for Special Functional Materials, Henan Uiversity, Kaifeng China, 5 , Surface Science Western, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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9:00 PM - Q20.22
Electromechanical Sensors Based on Ultra Long Free Standing Aligned Carbon Nanotubes.

Victor Pushparaj 1 , Lijie Ci 1 , Jonghwan Suhr 1 , Omkaram Nalamasu 1 , Ajayan Pulickel 1
1 Materials Science and Engg., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, troy, New York, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.23
In-situ Mechanical Probing of Nanostructures with AFM-TEM System.

Alexandra Nafari 1 3 , Oleg Lourie 2 , David Karlen 3 1 , Krister Svensson 3 , Peter Enoksson 3
1 , Nanofactory Instruments, Gothenburg Sweden, 3 , Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden, 2 , Gatan Inc., Pleasanton, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.24
Conductive MWNT/Poly(Vinyl Acetate) Composite Nanofibers by Electrospinning.

Guan Wang 1 , Vladimir Samuilov 1 , Ja-Seung Koo 1 , Zhongkui Tan 2 , Xueqing Liu 2 , Michael Dudley 1
1 Materials Science Dept., Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States, 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook , New York, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.25
Atomic Force and Optical Microscopy Characterization of the Deformation of Individual Carbon Nanotubes and Nanofibers.

Terry Bigioni 1 , Alan Cassell 1 , Joseph Leung 1 , Cattien Nguyen 1 , Brett Cruden 1
1 Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.26
Fast Growth of Long, Vertical Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Spinning Strong Fibers.

Qingwen Li 1 , XieFei Zhang 1 , Raymond DePaula 1 , Lianxi Zheng 1 , Yonghao Zhao 1 , Liliana Stan 1 , Terry Holesinger 1 , Paul Arendt 1 , Dean Peterson 1 , Yuntian Zhu 1
1 , Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.27
Elastic Properties of Normal and Binormal Helical Nanowires.

Alexandre da Fonseca 1 , Coraci Malta 1 , Douglas Galvão 2
1 , Instituto de Física, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2 , Instituto de Física 'Gleb Wataghin', Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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9:00 PM - Q20.28
Impact of Buckling and Adhesion on the Mechanical Response of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Structures.

David Bahr 1 , C. McNee 1 , A. Zbib 1 , C. Richards 1 , S. Mesarovic 1 , R. Richards 1 , D. McClain 2 , J. Jiao 2 , K. Sinnathamby 3 , H. Ma 3 , C. Yip 3
1 Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States, 2 Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, United States, 3 Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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9:00 PM - Q20.29
Polymer Coated Carbon Nanotubes Probes for Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy.

Amol Patil 1 , A. Beker 1 , G. Coslovich 1 , T. Oosterkamp 1
1 LION, Leiden University, Leiden Netherlands

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9:00 PM - Q20.3
Effect of Carboxy-Functionalized Multiwall Nanotubes (MWNT-COOH) on the Crystallization and Chain Conformations of Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) PET in PET-MWNT Nanocomposites.

Vasilis Gregoriou 1 , Spiros Tzavalas 1 , Vasilis Drakonakis 1 , Dionysis Mouzakis 2 , Georgia Kandilioti 1 , Dieter Fischer 3
1 , Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes (FORTH/ICE-HT), Patras, Achaia, Greece, 2 Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, Patras, Achaia, Greece, 3 , Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF), Dresden Germany

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9:00 PM - Q20.31
Sensor and Controller Design of Microcantilever Arrays Using Carbon Nanotube Tip for Electrochemical Sensing, Imaging and Manipulation.

Eunjeong Lee 1
1 , KAIST, Daejeon Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q20.32
Scaling, Design and Self-assembly of Nanotube-based Electromechanical Devices.

Roland Lefèvre 1 , Erik Dujardin 2 , Marcelo Goffman 1 , Vincent Derycke 1 , Patrice Hesto 3 , Jean-Philippe Bourgoin 1
1 SPEC, CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette France, 2 Nanoscience Group, CEMES CNRS, Toulouse France, 3 IEF, Université de Paris Sud - Orsay, Orsay France

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9:00 PM - Q20.33
Vertically Oriented Carbon Nanofiber Based Nanoelectromechanical Switch.

Brett Cruden 1 , Alan Cassell 1 , Dmitry Kozak 2 , Joel Kubby 2
1 Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames UARC, Moffett Field, California, United States, 2 Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.34
Chemically Modified Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes as an Additive for Supercapacitors.

Yong-Jung Kim 1 , Yusuke Abe 2 , Takashi Yanagiura 2 , Masaaki Kitani 2 , Tsuyoshi Kodama 2 , Keita Higuchi 2 , Morinobu Endo 1 2
1 , Institute of Carbon Science & Technology, Shinshu University, Nagano, Nagano, Japan, 2 Electric and electronic engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Nagano, Japan

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9:00 PM - Q20.35
Bilayer Organic/Inorganic Gate Dielectrics for High Performance, Low-Voltage Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors, Complementary Logic Gates and p-n Diodes on Plastic Substrates.

Qing Cao 1 3 4 , John Rogers 2 3 4
1 Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States, 3 Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States, 4 Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States, 2 Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.36
Carbon Nanotube Networks as Gas Sensors.

Edgar Munoz 1 , Isabel Sayago 2 , Eva Terrado 1 , Manuel Aleixandre 2 , Maria del Carmen Horrillo 2 , Maria Jesus Fernandez 2 , Esperanza Lafuente 1 , Wolfgang Maser 1 , Ana Benito 1 , Javier Gutiérrez 2 , Maria Teresa Martinez 1
1 , Instituto de Carboquimica-CSIC, Zaragoza Spain, 2 Laboratorio de Sensores, IFA-CSIC, Madrid Spain

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9:00 PM - Q20.38
Thermal Conductivity of Ultrathin Carbon Nanotubes with an X-shaped Junction.

Fanyan Meng 1 2 , Shigenobu Ogata 1 , Dongsheng Xu 2 , Sanqiang Shi 3
1 Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Osaka Univeristy, Osaka Japan, 2 , Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, 3 Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong China

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9:00 PM - Q20.39
Measuring the Temperature of Electrically Heated Carbon Nanotubes by Raman Spectroscopy

Hootan Farhat 1 , Hyungbin Son 2 , Jing Kong 2
1 Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.4
Freely Suspended Carbon Nanotube Monolayer Array Encapsulated into Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films.

Hyunhyub Ko 1 2 , Chaoyang Jiang 1 2 , Vladimir Tsukruk 1 2
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States, 2 Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.40
Thermal and Electrical Degradation of Carbon Nanotubes.

Yan Liu 1 , Feng Jin 1 , Christopher Day 1 , Scott Little 1
1 Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.41
Heat Transfer from Carbon Nanotube-based Extended Surfaces.

John Shelton 1 , Frank Pyrtle 1
1 Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.42
Thermal Imaging of Nanoscale Heater Wires on MEMS Substrates.

Kamal Baloch 1 , Todd Brintlinger 2 4 , Yi Qi 2 4 , William Cullen 3 , John Cumings 2 4
1 Chemical Physics, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland, United States, 2 Material Science and Engineering, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland, United States, 4 Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States, 3 Physics, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.43
Modified Blackbody Emission from Carbon Nanotube Devices.

Andrew Walsh 1 , Ben Schlatka 2 , Mitch Meinhold 2 , Thomas Rueckes 2 , Michael Linehan 2 , A. Vamivakas 3 , Yan Yin 1 , M. Unlu 3 1 , Bennett Goldberg 1 3 , Anna Swan 3
1 Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 2 , Nantero, Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts, United States, 3 Electrical And Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.44
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Carbon Nanotube/Silicon Substrate Interfacial Thermal Conductance.

Jiankuai Diao 2 1 , Deepak Srivastava 2 1
2 , University of California, , Santa Cruz, California, United States, 1 , NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology, Moffett Field, California, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.45
Anharmonic Effects in Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene and Graphite: Thermal Expansion and Phonon Lifetimes.

Nicola Bonini 1 , Nicolas Mounet 1 , Michele Lazzeri 2 , Francesco Mauri 2 , Nicola Marzari 1
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 , Institut de Minéralogie et Physique des Milieux Condensés, Paris France

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9:00 PM - Q20.46
High Concentration Carbon Nanotube Oil Solution for Thermal Applications.

Yoichi Taira 1 , Kuniaki Sueoka 1
1 Tokyo Research Lab, IBM, Yamato Japan

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9:00 PM - Q20.47
Carbon Evaporation from Carbon Nanotube Field Emitters Studied by Conductivity Change of CNT Anode.

Alexander Kuznetsov 1 , Ren Chong Hu 1 , Mei Zhang 1 , Sergey Lee 1 , Ray Baughman 1 , Anvar Zakhidov 1
1 NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.49
Influence of Electrostatic Field on Storage of Hydrogen in Carbon Nanotubes.

Soumik Banerjee 1 , Sohail Murad 2 , Ishwar Puri 1
1 Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States, 2 Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.5
Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube-PDMS Composite Systems for Electronic Applications.

Melissa Harrison 1 , Stephanie Getty 2 , Patrick Roman 2 , Louis Barbier 2
1 Physics, Fisk University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 2 , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.50
Effects of Post Treatment and Duty Factor on the Field Emission Stability of Carbon Nanotubes.

Sigen Wang 1 , Sha Chang 1
1 Division of Physics & Computing, Medical School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.51
Temperature- and Field-dependent Electron Emission from Carbon Nanotube Emitters.

Scott Little 1 , Feng Jin 1 , Yan Liu 1
1 Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.52
Fabrication And Modeling Of Gated Field-emission Devices Using Carbon Nanotubes on Si Substrates.

Javad Koohsorkhi 1 , Yaser Abdi 1 , Shams Mohajerzadeh 1 , Michael Robertson 2
1 Electrical and Computer Eng., university of Tehran, Tehran, Tehran, Iran (the Islamic Republic of), 2 Physics, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

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9:00 PM - Q20.53
Optoelectronic Properties of Thin Films of SWNTs From Different Commercial Sources.

Husnu Unalan 1 , Giovanni Fanchini 1 , Steve Miller 1 , Manish Chhowalla 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.54
Photoluminescent Characteristics of Ni-catalyzed GaN Nanowires.

Jinkyoung Yoo 1 , Young Joon Hong 1 , Sung Jin An 1 , Gyu-Chul Yi 1 , Bonghwan Chon 2 , Taiha Joo 2
1 Mateirals Sci. & Eng., POSTECH, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, Korea (the Republic of), 2 Chemistry, POSTECH, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, Korea (the Republic of)

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9:00 PM - Q20.55
Preparation and Photocatalytic Property of ZnO/MWCNTs Composites.

Ying Yu 2 1
2 , HuaZhong Normal University, Wuhan China, 1 , Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.56
Optical Properties of Si Nanowire Films.

Loucas Tsakalakos 1 , Joleyn Balch 1 , Jody Fronheiser 1 , Matthew Pietrzykowski 1 , Peter Codella 1 , Jim Rand 2 , Oleg Sulima 2 , Anil Kumar 3
1 , General Electric - Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, United States, 2 , GE Energy, Newark, Delaware, United States, 3 , General Electric - John F. Welch Technology Center, Bangalore India

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9:00 PM - Q20.57
Transparent Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes Laminated as Top Electrode in Organic Solar Cells.

Kanzan Inoue 1 2 , Kamil Mielczarek 1 2 , Brian Wang 1 2 , Dean Hsu 1 2 , Sergey Lee 1 , Mei Zhang 1 , Shaoli Fang 1 , Ray Baughman 1 3
1 NanoTech Institute, Universty of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States, 2 Physics Departement, Universty of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States, 3 Chemistry Departement, Universty of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.58
Flexible PLED and OLED with Transparent Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes Electrodes.

Raquel Ovalle Robles 1 2 , Sergio Vazquez 1 4 , Christopher Williams 1 2 , Mei Zhang 1 , Shaoli Fang 1 , Sergey Lee 1 , Ray Baughman 1 3 , Anvar Zakhidov 1 2
1 NanoTech, University of Texas at Dallas (UT-D), Plano, Texas, United States, 2 Physiscs Department, University of Texas at Dallas (UT-D), Plano, Texas, United States, 4 Physics Department, Universidad de Guanajuato, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, 3 Chemestry Department, University of Texas at Dallas (UT-D), Plano, Texas, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.59
Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Coatings as Transparent Conductors.

Chris Weeks 1 , Michael Trottier 1 , Phillip Wallis 1 , Jorma Peltola 1 , Igor Levitsky 1 , David Britz 1 , Paul Glatkowski 1
1 , Eikos, Inc., Franklin, Massachusetts, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.6
Purification of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and the Production of Nanotube/Elastin Composite.

Bin Zhao 1 , Alex Puretzky 1 , Hui Hu 1 , David Styers-Barnett 1 , Ilia Ivanov 1 , Chris Rouleau 1 , David Geohegan 1
1 Center of Nanophase Materials Sciences and the Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.60
Fabrication and Magnetic Properties Characterization of Nickel Nanowires Polymer Composite.

Jeongmin Hong 1 , Heather Denver 1 , Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc 1
1 Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.61
A Single-walled Carbon Nanotube-based Nanocompass for High Spatial Resolution Magnetometry.

Stephanie Getty 1 , Jonathon Brame 2 , Johnathan Goodsell 2 , Melissa Harrison 4 , Gunther Kletetschka 3 , David Allred 2
1 Materials Engineering Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States, 2 Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States, 4 Physics, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 3 Physics, Catholic University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.7
Elastomer Functionalized Carbon Nanofiber for toughening of Poly(siloxaneimide) Based Nanocomposite.

Javed Mapkar 1 , Maria Coleman 1
1 Chemical and Enviornmental Engineering, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States

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9:00 PM - Q20.8
Low Electrical Resistance of Transparent SWNT/Block Copolymer Thin Films by Incorporating Metal Nanoparticles.

Jinwoo Sung 1 , Cheolmin Park 1
1 Material Science and Engineering, Yonsei Univ., Seoul Korea (the Republic of)

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Symposium Organizers

Prabhakar Bandaru University of California-San Diego
Morinobu Endo Shinshu University
Ian Kinloch University of Cambridge
Apparao M. Rao Clemson University
Q21: Biological Interactions of Nanotubes and Nanowires
Session Chairs
Morinobu Endo
Friday AM, December 01, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

9:00 AM - **Q21.1
What Carbon Nanotubes and Fullerenes Do when Incorporated in Biological Systems?

Pu-Chun Ke 1
1 , Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States

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9:30 AM - Q21.2
Interfacing Carbon Nanotubes with Biological Systems.

Xing Chen 1 , Un Chong Tam 1 , David Rabuka 1 , Alex Zettl 2 , Carolyn Bertozzi 1
1 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States, 2 Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States

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10:00 AM - Q21.4
Investigation of DNA Decorated Carbon Nanotube Chemical Sensors.

Michelle Chen 1 , Samuel Khamis 2 , Robert Johnson 2 , Cristian Staii 2 , Alex Fried 2 , Michael Klein 3 , John Fischer 1 , Alan Johnson 2
1 Materials Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 2 Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 3 Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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10:15 AM - Q21.5
Electrochemical Sensing Properties of Ultra Long Aligned Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Microelectrodes.

Niramol Punbusayakul 1 2 , Lijie Ci 1 , Saikat Talapatra 1 , Werasak Surareungchai 2 , Pulickel Ajayan 1
1 Materials and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States, 2 Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok Thailand

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10:30 AM - Q21.6
Highly Improved Sensitivity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Transistor Based Biosensors with Increased Schottky Contact Region.

Hye Ryung Byon 1 , Hee Cheul Choi 1
1 Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang Korea (the Republic of)

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10:45 AM - Q21.7
Atomic Force Macroscopy of DNA-treated Single Wall Carbon Nano Tubes.

Jie Yang 1 2 , David Kidwell 1 , Pehr Pehrsson 1
1 Surface Science Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 2 , NOVA research Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, United States

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11:00 AM - Q21
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Q22: Chemical and Mechanical Interactions
Session Chairs
Pu Chun Ke
Friday PM, December 01, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

11:30 AM - **Q22.1
Carbon Nanotube – Silicon Heterojunction Hyperspectral Photocurrent Response.

Jimmy Xu 1 , Teng-Fang Kuo 1 , Dan Straus 1 , Marian Tzolov 1 2
1 , Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 2 Dept. of Geology and Physics, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States

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12:15 PM - Q22.3
Thermotropic and Lyotropic Liquid Crystals: Self-organizing Media to Organize Carbon Nanotubes.

Giusy Scalia 1 2 , Jan Lagerwall 3 , Miroslav Haluska 1 , Ursula Dettlaff-Weglikowska 1 , Frank Giesselmann 3 , Siegmar Roth 1
1 Department von Klitzing, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart Germany, 2 , ENEA, Portici (Naples) Italy, 3 Institute of Physical Chemistry, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart Germany

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12:30 PM - Q22.4
Multiscale Modeling of Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes: Self-assembly, Self-folding and Fracture.

Markus Buehler 1 , Ryan King 1 , Cindy Wang 1
1 Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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12:45 PM - Q22.5
Elastic Property of Vertically Aligned Nanowires

Jinhui Song 1 , Xudong Wang 1 , Elisa Riedo 2 , Zhong Wang 1
1 Materials Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 2 Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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Q23: Mechanical Properties & Modeling
Session Chairs
Werner Blau
Friday PM, December 01, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

2:30 PM - **Q23.1
Nano-Electromechanical Systems based on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Jannik Meyer 1 , Dirk Obergfell 1 , Matthieu Paillet 2 , Thierry Michel 2 , Jean-Louis Sauvajol 2 , Siegmar Roth 1
1 , Max-Planck Institute for solid state research, Stuttgart Germany, 2 Laboratoire des Colloides, Verres et Nanomateriaux, Universite de Montpellier II, Montpellier France

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3:00 PM - **Q23.2
Electron Localization in Tensile Elongated Carbon Nanotubes.

Jianyu Huang 1 , S. Chen 1 , Z. Wang 1 , Z. Ren 1 , K. Kempa 1 , M. Naughton 1 , G. Chen 2 , M. Dresselhaus 3
1 Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 3 Department of Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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3:30 PM - Q23.3
Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube based Shear Sensors: Theory, Design, and Synthesis.

Christian Deck 1 , Chi-Nung Ni 1 , Kenneth Vecchio 1 , Prabhakar Bandaru 1
1 , UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States

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3:45 PM - Q23.4
Nanomechanical Oscillator Arrays Fabricated by Bottom-up Integration of Silicon Nanowires.

Mingwei Li 1 , Rustom Bhiladvala 1 4 , James Sioss 2 , Kok-Keong Lew 3 , Joan Redwing 3 1 , Christine Keating 2 , Theresa Mayer 1
1 Electrical Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 4 Materials Research Institute, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 2 Chemistry, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 3 Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

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4:00 PM - Q23
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Q24: Nanocomposites & Large Scale Use of NW/NTs
Session Chairs
Jannik Meyer
Friday PM, December 01, 2006
Room 312 (Hynes)

4:30 PM - **Q24.1
Optical and Optoelectronic Properties of Nanowire and Nanotube / Polymer Composites A Model Study in NanoscaleMolecular Engineering

Werner Blau 1
1 School of Physics , Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Ireland

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5:00 PM - Q24.2
Direct Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Metal-Doped Carbon Aerogels: Novel Composite Materials and a Novel Method for Characterizing a Metal’s Propensity to Catalyze Nanotube Growth.

Stephen Steiner III 1 , Theodore Baumann 2 , Joe Satcher Jr. 2 , Mildred Dresselhaus 3 4 , Jing Kong 3
1 Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States, 3 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 4 Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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5:15 PM - Q24.3
Nanocomposite Polymer Foams Containing Carbon Nanotubes and Nanofibres.

Milo Shaffer 1 , Raquel Verdejo 1 , Alexander Bismarck 1 , Jan Sandler 2 , Volker Altstädt 2
1 Dept of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London United Kingdom, 2 , University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth Germany

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5:30 PM - Q24.4
Simulation of the Stress–strain Behavior of Single and Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes-reinforced Polymer Composites.

Antonio Pantano 1 , David M. Parks 2 , Mary C. Boyce 2 , Francesco Cappello 1
1 Dipartimento di Meccanica, University of Palermo, Palermo Italy, 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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5:45 PM - Q24.5
Solid State Spinning of Carbon Nanotube Yarns.

Shaoli Fang 1 , Mei Zhang 1 , Ken Atkinson 2 , Ray Baughman 1
1 Nanotech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States, 2 , CSIRO Textile & Fibre Technology, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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