Symposium DD: De Novo Carbon Nanomaterials

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De Novo Carbon Nanomaterials

A variety of electronic, mechanical, optical, and chemical properties of carbon nanomaterials derive from its different allotropes including nanotubes, fullerenes, diamond, amorphous carbon, and graphene, which provide emerging materials for applications in nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, biosensors, drug delivery, energy conversion, and storage.  This symposium aims to highlight recent breakthroughs and challenges in the manufacturing, synthesis, and modeling of carbon nanomaterials with applications in energy, mechanical and physical properties, and integration with biological materials and structures.

A specific focus of this symposium is the challenge of linking the scales from the nano- to macroscale via the creation of hierarchical architectures realized based on carbon nanomaterials as building blocks.  Here, novel material properties emerge because of the synergistic interaction across the scales, where the union is more than the sum of its parts.  This strategy provides access to a broad set of functional properties that include switch-ability, tenability, and mutability in the design of de novo graphene and hierarchical carbon materials.  Applications of such multiscale-engineered materials range from nano-electronics to novel construction materials, and could have wide-ranging implications to facilitate new technological innovations at the interface of materials science, engineering, and biology.

Abstracts are solicited in (but not limited to) the following topical areas:

  • Hierarchical and hybrid graphene materials (2D and 3D architectures and junctions with carbon nanotubes)
  • Graphene and carbon-nanotube growth techniques; bottom-up manufacturing, and assembly of organic molecules
  • CVD and epitaxy for large-area growth, roll-to-roll processing and layer transfer techniques
  • Novel catalyst approaches, substrates (SiC, Si, metal, etc.) and patterned surfaces
  • Low-temperature, plasma, and pulsed-plasma growth techniques and catalyst-free approaches
  • In-situ monitoring of growth and large-area metrology techniques
  • Structural characterization at the atomic scale; defect and layer analysis
  • In-plane and edge defects in large-area graphene layers and repair methods
  • Functionalization, electrochemical properties, and photochemical activity
  • Graphene and carbon nanotube mechanics including fracture, tearing, and exfoliation
  • First-principles/ab-initio and molecular dynamics modeling, theoretical calculations, and novel properties
  • Novel materiomics approaches to modeling and design, including graph theory and multiscale modeling
  • Applications in energy storage and conversion, drug delivery, and regenerative medicine

Invited speakers include:

Ilhan Aksay (Princeton Univ.), Vikas Berry (Kansas State Univ.), Walt de Heer (Georgia Inst. of Technology), William A. Goddard (California Inst. of Technology), Julia Greer (California Inst. of Technology), Mark Hersam (Northwestern Univ.), Yonggang Huang (Northwestern Univ.), Richard Kaner (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), Roland Kawakami (Univ. of California, Riverside), Klaus Kern (Max Planck Inst., Germany), Sang Ouk Kim (KAIST, S. Korea), Ju Li (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Colin Nuckolls (Columbia Univ.), Tomas Palacios (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), Jiwoong Park (Cornell Univ.), Rodney Ruoff (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Riichiro Saito (Tohoku Univ., Japan), Vivek Shenoy (Brown Univ.), Boris Yakobson (Rice Univ.).

Symposium Organizers


Cengiz S. Ozkan
University of California, Riverside
Depts. of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Rm. A305, Bourns Bldg.,
Riverside, CA 92521-0425
Tel 951-827-5016, Fax 951-827-2899
cozkan@engr.ucr.edu  

Kang Wang
University of California, Los Angeles
Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
Rm. 66-147C, Eng. Bldg. IV
Los Angeles, CA 92521-0425
Tel 310-825-1609, Fax 310-206-8495
wang@ee.ucla.edu  

Markus J. Buehler
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rm. 1-235A&B, 77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel 617-452-2750, Fax 617-324-4014
mbuehler@mit.edu  

Nicola Pugno
Politecnico di Torino
Dept. of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
I-10129 Torino, Italy
Tel 39-11-5644902
nicola.pugno@polito.it 

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