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Symposium P: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Low-Dimensional Materials

Symposium P: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Low-Dimensional Materials Image

SYMPOSIUM P

Carbon Nanotubes and Related Low-Dimensional Materials
March 24 - 28, 2008
Chairs
Li-Chyong Chen     National Taiwan University
John Robertson     Cambridge University
Zhong Lin Wang     Georgia Institute of Technology
David B. Geohegan     Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Symposium Support
AIXTRON AG
National Taiwan University


* Invited paper

TUTORIAL
Characterization and Application of One-dimensional Nanostructures
Monday, March 24, 2008
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Room 2009 (Moscone West)


SESSION P1:Growth
Chairs: Li-Chyong Chen, David Geohegan, John Robertson and Zhong Lin Wang
Tuesday Morning, March 25, 2008
Room 3003 (Moscone West)

EARLY START

8:15 AM *P1.1
Kinetic modeling of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube growth on Co-Mo/SiO2 catalysts with same-particle characterization of catalysts and product. Daniel E Resasco, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

8:45 AM P1.2
Pressure-Induced Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube (n,m) Selectivity on Co-Mo Catalysts. Yuan Chen, Bo Wang and Li Wei; School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.

9:00 AM P1.3
Proper Combination of Catalyst Materials and Ethanol for High Yield in CVD Growth of Carbon Nanotubes. Fumihiko Maeda1,2 and Yoshihiro Kobayashi1,2; 1NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone corporation, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, Japan; 2CREST, JST, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, Japan.

9:15 AM P1.4
Real-Time Monitoring Coupled with Combinatorial Catalyst Library for Millimeter Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Suguru Noda1, Kei Hasegawa1, Hisashi Sugime1, Shigeo Maruyama2 and Yukio Yamaguchi1; 1Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

9:30 AM P1.5
In situ Transient Growth Kinetics of Vertically-Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays at Low-Pressures. Jeremy Jackson1, Alex Puretzky2, Gyula Eres1, Chris Rouleau2, Hui Hu1, Bin Zhao2 and David Geohegan2; 1Material Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 2Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

9:45 AM P1.6
In-situ Time-resolved XPS Study of Catalyst Behavior During Carbon Nanotube Growth. C. Tobias Wirth1, Stephan Hofmann1, John Robertson1, C. Mattevi2, C. Cepek3, A. Goldoni4, M. Cantoro1, R. Blume5, D. Teschner5, S. Zafreiratos5, P. Schnoerch5, A. Oesterriech5, M. Haevecker5 and R. Schlogl5; 1Engineering Dept, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2University of Padova, Padova, Italy; 3Lab Nazionale, Trieste, Italy; 4Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy; 5Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *P1.7
The Role of Autocatalytic Kinetics in Rapid Growth of Vertically Aligned Nanotube Arrays. Gyula Eres, C. M. Rouleau, A. A. Puretzky, J. J. Jackson and D. B. Geohegan; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

11:00 AM P1.8
Growth of Carbon Nanotubes for CMOS Interconnects. Guofang Zhong and John Robertson; Engineering Dept, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

11:15 AM P1.9
CMOS Compatible Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes. G. N. Ayre1, T. Uchino3, B. Mazumder2, D. C. Smith1, A. L. Hector2, C. H. de Groot3 and P. Ashburn3; 1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom; 2School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom; 3School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

11:30 AM P1.10
Full Scale Wafer Growth of Perfectly Aligned Carbon Nanotubes and Aligned Growth Characterization. Deji Akinwande, Nishant Patil, Albert Lin, Yoshio Nishi and H.-S Philip Wong; Stanford University, Stanford, California.

11:45 AM P1.11
Wafer-scale Fabrication of a Vertically-aligned NEMS Switch Based on Carbon Nanofibers. Dmitry A Kozak1,2, Joel Kubby1, Alan M Cassell2 and Brett A Cruden2; 1EE, UCSC, Santa Cruz, California; 2NASA AMES, Moffet Field, California.

SESSION P2: Hybrid and Membrane
Chairs: Li-Chyong Chen and Daniel Resasco
Tuesday Afternoon, March 25, 2008
Room 3003 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *P2.1
Controlled Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Based Hybrid Nanostructures. Pulickel M. Ajayan, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

2:00 PM P2.2
Smart Dust from Hybrid Nanotubes. Fung Suong Ou1,3, Manikoth M. Shaijumon2,3 and Pulickel M. Ajayan2,3; 1Department of Applied Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, Texas.

2:15 PM P2.3
Highly Ordered Self-assembled Single Wall Carbon Nanotube and Gold Nanoparticle Composite Material. Trevor John Simmons1,2 and Pulickel M. Ajayan2,3; 1Chemical and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 2Material Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 3Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

2:30 PM P2.4
A High-Flux, Flexible Membrane with Parylene-encapsulated Carbon Nanotubes. Hyung Gyu Park1, Jungbin In2, Sangil Kim3, Francesco Fornasiero1, Jason K. Holt1, Costas P. Grigoropoulos2, Aleksandr Noy1 and Olgica Bakajin1,3; 11Chemistry, Materials, Earth and Life Sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; 22Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 33NSF Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California.

2:45 PM P2.5
Mixed gas transport studies through carbon nanotube membranes Sangil Kim1, Hyung Gyu Park2, Jung Bin In3, Francesco Fornasiero2, Jason K Holt2, Aleksandr Noy2 and Olgica Bakajin2,1; 1NSF Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California; 2Chemistry, Materials, Earth and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkely, Berkely, California.

3:00 PM BREAK

SESSION P3: Process and Assembly I
Chairs: Pulickel Ajayanan and Zhong Lin Wang
Tuesday Afternoon, March 25, 2008
Room 3003 (Moscone West)

3:30 PM *P3.1
Arrays and Networks of Carbon Nanotubes for Integrated Circuits. John A Rogers, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

4:00 PM P3.2
Nanotube Network Transistors on Functional Surfaces. Melburne LeMieux, Soumendra Barman, Roberts Mark, Justin Opatkiewicz, Kaveri Thakoor and Zhenan Bao; Chemical Engineering, Stanford, Stanford, California.

4:15 PM P3.3
Self-Organization of Complex Nanotube Structures by Combined Epitaxial Growth and External Forces. Ariel Ismach, Noam Geblinger and Ernesto Joselevich; Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

4:30 PM P3.4
Metallic Nanotubes Removal: Toward Large Scale Production of High Performance Carbon Nanotube Integrated Devices. Lewis M. Gomez - De Arco1, Akshay Kumar2, Yi Zhang1, Koungmin Ryu2, Alexander Badmaev3, Jeffrey Tola4, Rebeca Medina4 and Chongwu Zhou4; 1Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 2Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 3Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 4Electrical Engineering and Electrophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

4:45 PM P3.5
Synthesis and Properties of Carbon Nanotube Yarns and Textiles. Mark W Schauer, David Lashmore, Brian White and Robert Bradon; NanoComp Technologies, Concord, New Hampshire.

SESSION P4: Poster Session: CNTs Growth
Tuesday Evening, March 25, 2008
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)


P4.1
Chirality Sorted Nanotubes Extracted for Electronic Devices. Soumendra N Barman, Melburne C. LeMieux and Zhenan Bao; Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

P4.2
Novel Fabrication of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Direct Testing of Their Structural and Electronic Properties. Jianfeng Wu1, Devon McClain1, Timothy Gutu1, Jun Jiao1, Seongmin Kim2, Mark Mann2, Yan Zhang2 and Kenneth Teo2; 1Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon; 2Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

P4.3
New Strategy to Fabricate Highly Conductive Materials with Length Controlled CNTs. Hyunjung Lee, Hye Jin Park, Kyung-A Oh and Min Park; Hybrid Materials Research Center, KIST, Seoul, South Korea.

P4.4
Synthesis and Characterization of Thin-multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes and their Field Emission Properties. Dong Hoon Shin, Ji Hoon Choi, Sang Min Park and Cheol Jin Lee; School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.

P4.5
Clay-Assisted Dispersion of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Epoxy Nanocomposites. Jaime C. Grunlan1,2,3 and Lei Liu3; 1Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; 2Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; 3Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

P4.6
Immobilization of CNT on Bamboo Charcoal by TEOS Vapor. Jiangtao Zhu, Fung Luen Kwong and Dickon H. L. Ng; Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

P4.7
Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Atmospheric Pressure Water Plasma Treatment of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes. Szetsen Steven Lee1, Jr-Wei Peng1 and Chi-Hung Liu2; 1Chemistry, Center for Nano-technology, R&D Center for Membrane Technology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chungli, Taiwan; 2Mechanical and Systems Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Chutung, Taiwan.

P4.8
New Carbon Allotropes Produced by Hydrogen Plasma Exposure of Carbon Nanotubes. Michael Behr1, Tejinder Singh2, Andre Muniz2, Dimitrios Maroudas2 and Eray Aydil1; 1Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.

P4.9
Development of Carbon Nanotubes Wiring for a Via Hole and an Apparatus for a 12-inch wafer. Haruhisa Nakano and Hirohiko Murakami; Tsukuba Institute for Super materials, ULVAC, Inc., Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

P4.10
Investigation of Electrophoretic Deposited CNT Cathode for Micro-Focus Field Emission X-Ray Source. Xiomara Calderon-Colon1 and Otto Zhou1,2,3; 1Curriculum in Applied and Materials Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 3Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

P4.11
Large Scale Synthesis of Vertical Aligned CNT Array on the Quartz Particle. Qiang Zhang, Jia-Qi Huang, Meng-Qiang Zhao, Wei-Zhong Qian, Yao Wang, De-Zheng Wang and Fei Wei; Department of Chemical Engineering,Tsinghua University, Beijing Key laboratory of Green Reaction Engineering and Technology,Department of Chemical Engineering,Tsinghua University, Beijing, Beijing, China.

P4.12
Catalytic CVD Synthesis of the Single-walled BN and BxCyNz Nanotubes and Related Studies. Wenlong Wang1,2, Yoshio Bondo1, Enge Wang2 and Dmitri Golberg1; 1International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS), National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan; 2Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

P4.13
Controlled Alignment of Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes for Advanced Composites. Hubert Phillips1, Laura Pena-Paras1, Dario Prieto-Centurion1, Howard Schmidt2 and Enrique V Barrera1; 1MEMS, RICE University, Houston, Texas; 2Chemistry, RICE University, Houston, Texas.

P4.14
Aligned Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Patterns for Field Effect Transistors: Fabrication and Electrical Characterization. Dae Il Kim1, Yong Kwan Kim1, Jaehyun Park1, Gunchul Shin1, Gyu-Tae Kim2 and Jeong Sook Ha1; 1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea; 2School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.

P4.15
Study of Formation of Well Crystalline Carbon Nanotubes During High-Energy Milling of Lead Magnesium Niobates. Elena Tchernychova, Danjela Kuscer and Marija Kosec; Electronic Ceramics Department, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

P4.16
Abstract Withdrawn

P4.17
The Effect of NiCr Grain Boundary Segregation on the Direct Growth of Carbon Nanotubes and Enhanced Field Emission Properties. Setha Yim1,2, Riichiro Ohta3, Nathaniel B. Zuckerman1,4, Jessica L. Killian1,4, Chuck Hitzman5, Emily Allen2, Meyya Meyyappan6 and Cattien V. Nguyen1; 1Ames Center for Nanotechnology, ELORET/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California; 2Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, California; 3University Affiliated Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, NASA Ames Research Park, Moffett Field, California; 4Department of Chemistry, San Jose State University, San Jose, California; 5Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 6Ames Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

P4.18
Synthesis and Characterization of Stoichiometric Boron Nitride Nanostructures. Jose Eneider Nocua1 and Gerardo Morell1,2; 1Departmet of physic, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico; 2Department of Physic, Institute for Functional Nanomaterials, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

P4.19
Growth of the BN - Nano - Structured Materials using Borazine Decomposition by Laser Chemical Vapor Synthesis. Arturo Hidalgo, Vladimir I Makarov and Gerardo Morell; University of Puerto Rico, Carolina, Puerto Rico.

P4.20
Water-Soluble Non-HiPCo Single-walled Nanotubes Prepared From The Two-Step Phenylation-Sulfonation Reactions. Wendy Fan1, Tane Boghozian1, Cruden A. Brett2, Mairead Stackpoole1, James O. Arnold2 and Sylvia M. Johnson3; 1Eloret Corp., Sunnyvale, California; 2UCSC-NASA Ames, Moffett Field, California; 3Thermal protection Materials Branch, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

P4.21
Oriented MWCNT Forest Growth for Tunable Dry-draw Self Assembly into Nanotube Sheets and Yarns. Raquel Ovalle Robles1,3, Xavier Lepro4,3, Alexander Kuznetsov1,3, Shaoli Fang3, Ray Baughman2,3 and Anvar Zakhidov1,3; 1Physics, University of Texas at Dallas (UT-D), Richardson, Texas; 2Chemestry, University of Texas at Dallas (UT-D), Richardson, Texas; 3NanoTech Insitute, University of Texas at Dallas (UT-D), Richardson, Texas; 4Material Science, University of Texas at Dallas (UT-D), Richardson, Texas.

P4.22
Carbon Metal Interactions and Epitaxy in Nanotube Growth: Towards Chirality-selected Nanotube Production. Feng Ding1, Peter Larsson3, Andreas Larsson4, Rajeev Ahuja3, Kim Bolton2, Arne Rosen2 and Boris I Yakobson1; 1ME&MS, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 2Physics Department, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden; 3Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; 4Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

P4.23
Abstract Withdrawn

P4.24
Synthesis of Aligned Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes using Fe Catalysts Defined by Nanosphere Lithography. Alexander Badmaev, Koungmin Ryu, Lewis Gomez, Fumiaki Ishikawa and Chongwu Zhou; Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, LA, California.

P4.25
Combinatorial Exploration of CNT Growth Using Composition Gradients. Jonathan Petrie, Benjamin Hertzberg and Robert Bruce van Dover; Cornell University, Ithaca, California.

P4.26
Crucial Role of Ethylene Pyrolysis in Millimeter Growth of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes as Evidenced by Separate Optimization of Gas and Catalyst Temperatures. Ryuhei Ito1, Suguru Noda1, Toshio Osawa1, Shigeo Maruyama2 and Yukio Yamaguchi1; 1Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

P4.27
Abstract Withdrawn

P4.28
Effect of Barrier Layers on Patterned Vertically-Aligned Carbon Nanotube Growth. Brendan William Turner, David Hutchison, Richard Vanfleet and Robert Davis; Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

P4.29
Transferred to P6.9

SESSION P5: Poster Session: Graphene and Other Nanostructures
Tuesday Evening, March 25, 2008
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)


P5.1
Preparation and Properties of Graphite Nanoplatelets and Silver Particles filled Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) Composites. Hui Quan and Robert K.Y. Li; Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

P5.2
Thin Films of Highly Ordered Composites by Langmuir-Blodgett Technique. Patnarin Worajittiphon, Izabela Jurewicz, Eric W Brunner, Piyapong Asanithi and Alan B Dalton; Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.

P5.3
Interaction of Carbon Nanotubes with Surface-Confined Functional Groups. Justin Paul Opatkiewicz, Melburne C. LeMieux and Zhenan Bao; Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

P5.4
Surface Charge Guided Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes and C60 Molecules by Nanoxerography. Livia Seemann, Andreas Stemmer and Nicola Naujoks; Nanotechnology Group, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

P5.5
Abstract Withdrawn

P5.6
Fullerene-Like (IF) NbxMo1-xS2 Nanoparticles. Reshef Tenne1, Francis Leonard Deepak1, Hagai Cohen2, Sidney Cohen2, Yishay Feldman2, Ronit Popovitz-Biro3, Doron Azulay4 and Oded Millo4; 1Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; 2Chemical Services Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; 3Electron Microscopy Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; 4Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.

P5.7
Intercalation of the WS2 Nanotubes and Inorganic Fullerene-like Particles with Alkali Metals. Reshef Tenne1, Frieda Kopnov1, Hagai Cohen2, Ronit Popovitz-Biro2, Yishai Feldman2 and Alla Zak3; 1Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; 2Chemical Research Support Unit, Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; 3“NanoMaterials, Ltd.”, Rehovot, Israel.

P5.8
Abstract Withdrawn

P5.9
Morphology Control of Nanostructured Carbon Materials. Zhiyong Wang1, Elizabeth R. Kiesel2, Fan Li1 and Andreas Stein1; 1Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

P5.10
Engineering the Atomic and Electronic Structure of Graphene Nanoribbons by STM Lithography. Levente Tapaszto1, Gergely Dobrik1, Philippe Lambin2 and Laszlo P Biro1; 1Nanotechnology, Res. Inst. Tech. Phys. & Mat. Sci., Budapest, Hungary; 2Physics, Facultes Universitaire Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium.

P5.11
Preparation and Characterization of C60 Disk. Hyeon Suk Shin, Seok Min Yoon, Qun Tang, Bongwhan Chon, Taiha Joo and Hee Cheul Choi; Chemistry, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea.

P5.12
Directed Deposition and Electro-properties of Single-layer Graphene Sheets Produced by Chemical Reduction of Graphite Oxide (GO). Zhongqing Wei, Arnaldo R Laracuente and Paul E Sheehan; Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

P5.13
Abstract Withdrawn

P5.14
Use of Saccharides as Solid-state Precursors for the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes. Erman Bengu1,2, Mustafa Fatih Genisel1, Serim Kayacan2, Gokce Kucukayan2, Beril Baykal1 and Cuneyt Karakaya1; 1Chemistry, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey; 2Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

P5.15
Abstract Withdrawn

P5.16
Controlled Fabrication of Nanoporous Templates for CNT/SiNW Growth and Collective Organisation. Bernd Marquardt, Geunsang Cho, Laurent Eude, Manoharan Gowtham, Costel-Sorin Cojocaru and Didier Pribat; LPICM, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.

P5.17
Temperature-Dependent Raman Scattering from n(n=1,2,3..)-Graphene Layers. Awnish Gupta1, Timothy Russin1 and Peter C Eklund1,2; 1Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; 2Department of Material Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

P5.18
Potential Approach to grow the Epitaxial Graphene by using Carbon Implant on the Si(111) Substrate. Tackhwi Lee, Yonghyun Kim and Sanjay K. Banerjee; Microelectronics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

P5.19
Highly-ordered Monolayer of C60 Self-assembled on Iodine Modified Au(111) Surface. Yaw-Chia Yang and Yuh-Lang Lee; Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

P5.20
Visualizing electronic properties of Carbon Nanotube devices by Voltage Contrast Scanning Electron Microscopy. Aravind Vijayaraghavan, Sabine Blatt and Ralph Krupke; Institute of Nanotechnology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.

P5.21
Room Temperature Gas Sensors based on SnO2/MWCNTs Nanofibers. An Yang1, Xiaoming Tao1, Rongxin Wang1, Shuncheng Lee2 and Charles Surya3; 1Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; 2Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; 3Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

P5.22
Preparation and Characterization of BN Nanotubes with Controllable Sizes by Template-aided Synthesis. Yuting Wang, Yasunori Yamamoto, Hajime Kiyono and Shiro Shimada; Graduate School of Engineeering,Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

P5.23
Three-Dimensional Ordered Carbon Nanotube-ZnO Heterojunction Arrays. Xingbin Yan1,2, Beng Kang Tay2 and Philippe Miele1; 1Laboratoire des Multimateriaux et Interfaces, UMR CNRS 5615, Universite Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France; 2School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.

P5.24
C60 Fulleride Molecular Nanowire Crystals. Hiroshi Moriyama1, Takahito Sugiura1, Hatsumi Mori2; 1Department of Chemistry, Toho University, Funabashi, Japan; 2Institute of Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan.

SESSION P6: Graphene
Chairs: David Geohegan, Philip Kim and John Robertson
Wednesday Morning, March 26, 2008
Room 3003 (Moscone West)


8:30 AM *P6.1
Graphene-based Materials. Rodney S. Ruoff, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

9:00 AM P6.2
Temperature and Interface Effects on Raman Spectrum of Graphene Layers on Silicon, Sapphire, Gallium Arsenide and Glass Substrates. Irene Calizo1, F. Miao2, W. Bao2, C. N. Lau2 and A. A. Balandin1; 1Electrical Engineering, University of California - Riverside, Riverside, California; 2Physics and Astronomy, University of California - Riverside, Riverside, California.

9:15 AM *P6.3
Epitaxial Graphene for Nanoelectronics. Walt A. de Heer, Georgeia Instittue of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

9:45 AM P6.4
Measurement of Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Epitaxial Graphene. Jahan M Dawlaty, Shriram Shivaraman, Mvs Chandrashekhar, Michael Spencer and Farhan Rana; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *P6.5
Electric Transport in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene. Philip Kim, Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York.

11:00 AM P6.6
Electronic Charge and Spin Transport in Epitaxial Few-layer Graphene Films. Peide (Peter) Ye, Tian Shen, Yang Sui, Yanqing Wu, Michael A Capano and James A Cooper; Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

11:15 AM P6.7
Scanning Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy on Charged Single- and Bilayer Graphene. Dominik Ziegler1, Christoph Stampfer2, Francoise Molitor2, Davy Graf2 and Andreas Stemmer1; 1Department of Mechanics and Process Engineering, Nanotechnology Group, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2Department of Physics, Nanophysics Group, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

11:30 AM P6.8
Graphene as a Low-noise Electronic Material: Suppressed Low-frequency Current Fluctuations in Bilayer Graphene Nano-ribbons. Yu-Ming Lin and Phaedon Avouris; T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York.

11:45 AM P6.9
Synthesis and Electronic Properties SWCNT Sheets. David S. Lashmore, Mark Schauer, Brian White, David Degtiarov and Jennifer Mann; Nanocomp, Concord, New Hampshire.

SESSION P7: Poster Session: Electronic and Optical Properties
Wednesday Afternoon, March 26, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Exhibit Hall (Moscone West)

P7.1
The Electronic Structures of Fullerene/Transition-Metal Hybrid Material. Yoshihiro Matsumoto1, Seiji Sakai1, Norie Hirao2, Isamu Sugai1,3, Koki Takanashi1,3, Hiroshi Naramoto1, Satoru Okayasu1, Yuji Baba2 and Yoshihito Maeda1,4; 1ASRC, JAEA, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki, Japan; 2SRRC, JAEA, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki, Japan; 3IMR, Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; 4Dept. of Energy Science and Technology, Kyoto Univ., Uji, Kyoto, Japan.

P7.2
Abstract Withdrawn

P7.3
Abstract Withdrawn

P7.4
Electronic and Structural Properties of Metal Decorated Carbon Nanotubes. Alexandre Felten1, Irene Suarez-Martinez6, Jacques Ghijsen1, Wolfgang Drube2, Robert Johnson3, Duoduo Liang4, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo4, Michel Hecq5, Chris Ewels6, Carla Bittencourt5 and Jean-Jacques Pireaux1; 1LISE, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium; 2HASYLAB, Hamburg, Germany; 3Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; 4EMAT, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; 5LCIA, Universite de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium; 6IMN, CNRS UMR6502, Nantes, France.

P7.5
Photoemission Studies of Atomic Nitrogen Functionalized MWCNTs. Benoit Ruelle1,5, Alexandre Felten2, Jacques Ghijsen2, Robert L Johnson3,4, Marcella P Felicissimo6, Petra Rudolf6, Philippe Dubois5, Michel Hecq1 and Carla Bittencourt1; 1LCIA, University of Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium; 2LISE, Univeristy of Namur, Namur, Belgium; 3DESY, HASYLAB, Hamburg, Germany; 4Institut für Experimentalphysik, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; 5SPMC, University of Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium; 6Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.

P7.6
A Test Structure for Benchmark Measurement of Metal-to-Carbon Nanotube Side-Contact Resistance. Zhengchun Liu1, Lijie Ci2, Sang Hwui Lee1, Pulickel M. Ajayan2 and Jian-Qiang Lu1; 1Center for Integrated Electronics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 2Mechnical Engineering & Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

P7.7
Thermoelectric Effects in Electron Tunneling Between Carbon Nanofiber and Gold. Toshishige Yamada, Drazen Fabris, Jorge Gonzalez and Cary Y Yang; Center for Nanostructures, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.

P7.8
Scanning Probe Microscopic Investigation On Carbon Nanotubes In Polymer Photovoltaic Device. Sharon Chen1, Ming-Chung Wu1, Hsueh-Chung Liao1, Yun-Yue Lin1, Yang-Fang Chen2, Chun-Wei Chen1 and Wei-Fang Su1; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

P7.9
Electronic Properties of Boron Nitride Nanotubes: A Density Functional Theory Study. Brahim Akdim and Ruth Pachter; AFRL/ML, WPAFB, Ohio.

P7.10
An EFM Assay on the Metallic Content in SWNT Mixtures. Yao Xiong1, Wei Lu1, Ming Zheng2, Xiaomin Tu3, Wei Zhao3 and Liwei Chen1; 1Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio; 2DuPont Central Research and Development,Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware; 3Chemistry, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas.

P7.11
Spectroscopic and Electronic Investigations of Molecular Interaction with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Douglas R. Kauffman and Alexander Star; Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

P7.12
High Resolution Raman Imaging of SWNT Using Electrochemically Etched Gold Tip and Radially Polarised Annular Laser Beam. Debdulal Roy1, Caig Williams1, Jian Wang1, Loren Picco2 and Mervyn Miles2; 1National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, United Kingdom; 2Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.

P7.13
Preparation and Electrochemical Characterization of Porous CNT-PPy Nanocomposites for Supercapacitor Applications. Jiyoung Oh1, Mikhail Kozlov1, Bog Gi Kim2, Hyung-Kook Kim3, Yoon Hwae Hwang3 and Ray H. Baughman1; 1Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; 2Department of Physic, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea; 3Department of Nano Materials, Pusan National University, Miryang, South Korea.

P7.14
Electronic Properties of Edge-doped Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon: an ab initio Approach. Kai Tak Lam and Gengchiau Liang; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

P7.15
Transport Properties of Single Crystal C60 Nanorods. Alexandre Rudolf, Franklyn Burke, Zhu Diao, Mohamed Abid and Michael Coey; CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

P7.16
Measurements and Circuit Model of Carbon Nanofibers at Radio Frequencies. Francisco Madriz, John R. Jameson, Shoba Krishnan, Kris Gleason, Xuhui Sun and Cary Y. Yang; Center For Nanostructures, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.

P7.17
Abstract Withdrawn

P7.18
Patterning of Carbon Nanotube-containing Electrodes for Organic Thin Film Transistors. Sondra Hellstrom, Melbs LeMieux, Hang Woo Lee and Zhenan Bao; Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

P7.19
Electronic Transport and Layer Engineering in Multilayer Graphene. Haomin Wang1,2, Yihong Wu1, Kie Leong Teo1, Zhenhua Ni3 and Zexiang Shen3; 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; 2Data Storage Institute, Singapore, Singapore; 3Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.

P7.20
Sensor Response and Analysis of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Based Resistive Sensors. Vijay P Singh1, Suresh KS Rajaputra1, Raghu Mangu1, Patricia Clore1, Dali Qian2 and Rodney Andrews2; 1electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; 2Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

P7.21
An XPS Study of Vacuum Ultraviolet Photo-oxidation of Carbon Nanotubes. M. R. Rasmussen and David Dean Allred; Physics & Astronomy, Brigham Young, Provo, Utah.

P7.22
Statistical Device Study and Integrated Circuits Based on Transferred Massively Aligned Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes. Chuan Wang1, Koungmin Ryu1, Alexander Badmaev1, Lewis Gomez1, Akshay Kumar1, Albert Lin2, Nishant Patil2, Subhasish Mitra2, H.-S Philip Wong2 and Chongwu Zhou1; 1Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 2Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

P7.23
Raman Scattering from Incommensurately Stacked Bi-Layer Graphene. Awnish Gupta1, Youjian Tang1, Vincent Crespi1,2 and Peter C Eklund1,2; 1Physics, Penn State University, University Drive, Pennsylvania; 2Material Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

P7.24
Electrical Transport Study of 2D Carbon Nano-sheets Using Nanoprobes. Yihong Wu1, Xuemin Loh1, Sunny Yan Hwee Lua1,2, Kushvaha Sunil Singh1 and Haomin Wang1,2; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; 2Data Storage Institute, Singapore, Singapore.

P7.25
Ab-Initio Modeling of Contact Structure Formation of Carbon Nanotubes with Different Metals and Its Effect on Electron Transport. Weiqi Luo1, Kathik Ravichandran1, Wolfgang Windl1 and Leonardo R.C. Fonseca2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; 2Center for Semiconductor Compuonents, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP 13083-870, Brazil.

SESSION P8: Poster Session: Structural and Mechanical Properties
Wednesday Afternoon, March 26, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Exhibit Hall (Moscone West)

P8.1
High Resolution Electron Tomography and Atomic Resolution TEM of MoS2 Fullerenes. Reshef Tenne1, Maya Bar Sadan1, Sharon G. Wolf1, Lothar Houben2, Andrey N. Enyashin3, Gotthard Seifert3 and Knut Urban2; 1Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; 2Ernst Ruska Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; 3Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

P8.2
Microscopic and Raman Characterization of Graphene Produced by the High-Pressure High-Temperature Growth Method. Farough Parvizi1, Suchismita Ghosh1, Irene Calizo1, Alexander A Balandin1, Henry Zhu2 and Reza Abbaschian3; 1Nano-Device Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California - Riverside, Riverside, California; 2The Gemesis Corporation, Sarasota, Florida; 3Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California - Riverside, Riverside, California.

P8.3
Diameter and Chirality Dependent Redox Chemistry of Chromatographically Enriched Identical (n, m) Carbon Nanotubes. Wei Zhao, Chemistry, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas.

P8.4
Alignment of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube inside Confined Channel of PS/LDPE Formed by Continuous Shear Force. Younghwan Kwon and Chao Cao; Department of Chemical Engineering, Daegu University, Gyeongsan, South Korea.

P8.5
Influences of Hydrogen Gas on Carbon Nanotube Growth. Fumitaka Ohashi1, Guan Yow Chen2, Vlad Stolojan1 and Ravi Silva1; 1Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom; 2Surrey Nanosystems, Newhaven, United Kingdom.

P8.6
Abstract Withdrawn

P8.7
Surface and Wetting Properties of Vertically Aligned CNT Arrays. C. Tobias Wirth, Stephan Hofmann and John Robertson; Engineering, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

P8.8
Abstract Withdrawn

P8.9
Liquid and Solid Dispersions of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Hui Xu1, Hiroya Abe1, Makio Naito1, Hideki Ichikawa2, Yoshinobu Fukumori2, Shigehisa Endoh3 and Kneji Hata3; 1Osaka University, Ibaraki, Japan; 2Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan; 3Advanced industrial acience and technology, Tukuba, Japan.

P8.10
Anisotropic Dielectric Polarization of individual Carbon Nanotubes studied by Electric Force Microscopy. Wei Lu, Yao Xiong and Liwei Chen; Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

P8.11
Dispersibility and Interfacial Interaction of Functionalized-Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes in Nylon-6 Nano-composites. Ronghua Zhang and Robert R. Y. Li; City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

P8.12
Size-Dependence Peculiarities of Supported Small Clusters and their Effect on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Growth. Oleg A. Kuznetsov1, Elena Pigos1, Gugang Chen1, Toshio Tokune2 and Avetik R. Harutyunyan1; 1Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Columbus, Ohio; 2Honda R&D Co. Ltd., Saitama, Japan.

P8.13
Abstract Withdrawn

P8.14
Transferred to P18.3

P8.15
Stone-Wales Transformation:Precursor of Fracture in Carbon Nanotubes. Jizhou Song1, Hanqing Jiang2, Yonggang Huang3, Minfeng Yu1 and Kezhi Huang4; 1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 2Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 3Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 4Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

P8.16
Abstract Withdrawn

P8.17
Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Carbon Nanostructured Materials with Catalyst Composition. Hyunmin Cha, Ji-hun Kang, Jeong-Pyo Kim, Sung-Il Jung and Yeon-Gil Jung; School of Nano and Advanced Materials Engineering, Changwon National University, Changwon, South Korea.

P8.18
Understanding Nano-Carbon Interactions Using Aromatic Amino-Acids. Brian G Cousins2,1, Yan ning Li2, Michael Roberts2, Linda Gross2, Rein V Ulijn2,1 and Ian A Kinloch2; 1Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB), University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; 2Materials Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.

P8.19
Pressure Dependent Conductivity of Strained Carbon Nanotube Networks on Elastomer Substrates. Seung-Beck Lee1,2, Dong-Hun Min1,2, Chaehyun Lim2, Bonghyun Park2 and Chang-Seung Woo2; 1Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea; 2Nanosemiconductor Technology, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.

P8.20
Mechanical Properties of Mats of Well-aligned Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Christian Deck, Brandon Reynante, Gregg McKee and Kenneth Vecchio; Mats. Sci., UC San Diego, La Jolla, California.

P8.21
Optical and Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotube/Conjugated Polymer Composites. Xiaoguang Mei, Kuan Sun, Benhu Fan and Jianyong Ouyang; Materials Science & Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

P8.22
Probing the Boron Fullerene Family with Computer Simulations. Arta Sadrzadeh, Olga V Pupysheva, Abhishek Singh and Boris I Yakobson; ME&MS Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

P8.23
A Model of Dry-drawing of Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Forests into Self-assembled Sheets. Alexander Kuznetsov1, Alexandre Fonseca1, Kyeongjae Cho2, Ray Baughman1 and Anvar Zakhidov1; 1NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas; 2Physics Department, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas.

P8.24
Entanglement and the Nonlinear Elastic Behavior of Forests of Coiled Carbon Nanotubes. Vitor R. Coluci1, Alexandre F. Fonseca2, Douglas S. Galvao1 and Chiara Daraio3; 1Applied Physics Department, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 2The MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; 3Aeronautics and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

SESSION P9: Applications: Overview
Chair: Li-Chyong Chen
Wednesday Afternoon, March 26, 2008
Room 3003 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *P9.1
Carbon Nanotube Applications: A Progress Report. Meyya Meyyappan, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

2:00 PM *P9.2
CNTs for Fuel Cell and Supercapacitor Applications. Kuei-Hsien Chen1,2, Chen-Hao Wang1, He-Yun Du2, Hsin-Cheng Hsu2, Chia-Liang Sun1, Jerry Chojung Huang1, Wei-Chuan Fang3 and Jin-Hua Huang3; 1Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

2:30 PM BREAK

SESSION P10: Bio-Interface and Sensing
Chairs: Kue-Hsien Chen and Zhong Lin Wang
Wednesday Afternoon, March 26, 2008
Room 3003 (Moscone West)

3:30 PM P10.1
Electronic Structure and Interactions of Halide Ions at Carbon Nanotube Interfaces. Jason K. Holt1, Apurva Mehta2, Erik Nelson2, Samuel Webb2 and Zhi Liu2; 1Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; 2Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Menlo Park, California.

3:45 PM P10.2
Improved Sensitivity of Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Biosensors by Removal of Metallic Nanotubes and Creation of Defects. Fumiaki Ishikawa, Marco Curreli, Hsiao-kang Chang, Rui Zhang, Mark Thompson and Chongwu Zhou; USC, Los Angeles, California.

4:00 PM P10.3
Suspension of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Peptide Surfactants. Erica Bakota1 and Jeffrey Hartgerink1,2; 1Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 2Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

4:15 PM P10.4
DNA and PNA Conjugated Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Nanoelectronics. Cengiz Sinan Ozkan, Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California.

4:30 PM P10.5
Nanostructured Media for Protein Crystallization. Piyapong Asanithi1, Richard P Sear1, Eric Brunner1, Lata Govada2, Naomi E Chayen2, Emmanuel Saridakis2, Jamie A S Cleaver3, Joseph L Keddie1, Izabela Jurewicz1, Patnarin Worajittiphon1 and Alan B Dalton1; 1Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom; 2Division of Biomedical Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; 3Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.

4:45 PM P10.6
Enzymatically Activated Carbon Nanotube Dispersions. Brian G Cousins1,3, Apurba K Das1,3, Raman Sharma2, Johnathan P McNamara2, Ian H. Hillier2, Ian A Kinloch1 and Rein V Ulijn1,3; 1Materials Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; 3Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB), University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.

SESSION P11: Conductive Thin Films
Chairs: Manish Chhowalla and John Robertson
Thursday Morning, March 27, 2008
Room 3003 (Moscone West)

8:30 AM *P11.1
Recent Developments and Applications of Chirality-resolved Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes. Mark C. Hersam, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

9:00 AM P11.2
Transparent and Conductive Pressure-Sensitive-Adhesives with Carbon Nanotubes. Tao Wang2, Chun-Hong Lei2, Dan Liu2, Mihaela Manea3, Jose M Asua3, Costantino Creton1, Alan B Dalton2 and Joseph L Keddie2; 1Laboratoire PPMD, ESPCI-CNRS-UPMC, Paris, France; 2Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom; 3Institute of Polymer Materials, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain.

9:15 AM P11.3
Conductive Polymer Thin Films Based on Electrospun Fibers. Kristopher D Behler1, Mickael Havel2,1, Gulya Korneva3,1 and Yury Gogotsi1; 1Materials Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 2Technical Polymers, Arkema, Inc., King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; 3Chemistry, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

9:30 AM BREAK

SESSION P12: Wet Process and CNT Network
Chairs: Mark Hersam and Zhong Lin Wang
Thursday Morning, March 27, 2008
Room 3003 (Moscone West)

10:00 AM *P12.1
The Role of Network Formation in Carbon Nanotube-based Solid and Nanofluid Composites. John E Fischer, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

10:30 AM P12.2
Ink-jet Printing of Carbon Nanotube-based Thin Film Transistors. Paul Beecher1, Peyman Servati2,1, Alex Rozhin1, Alan Colli1, Vittorio Scardaci1, Simone Pisana1, Gen-Wen Hsieh1, Andrea Fasoli1, Daping Chu1, Flora M. Li3, Arokia Nathan4, Beng Ong5, Andrew J. Flewitt1, John Robertson1, Andrea Ferrari1 and William I. Milne1; 1Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 3Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; 4London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, United Kingdom; 5Xerox Research Centre of Canada, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

10:45 AM P12.3
Preparation, Characterization and Applications of Polymer-Free Carbon Nanotube Fibers. Mikhail Kozlov1, David Novitski1, Jiyoung Oh1, Ryan Capps1, Ray Baughman1, John Fischer2 and Paul Heiney2; 1Universty of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; 2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

11:00 AM P12.4
Modifying Surface Morphology to Tune Surface Properties of Carbon Nanotube Membranes. Lijie Ci, Rice University, Houston, Texas; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

11:15 AM *P12.5
Solution Processed Transparent and Conducting Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Films. Manish Chhowalla, Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.

11:45 AM P12.6
Transparent Flexible Electrodes from Carbon Nanotubes. Roderick Kinte Jackson1, Samuel Graham1, Benoit Domercq2 and Bernard Kippelen2; 1Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 2Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

SESSION P13: Characterization of CNTs
Chairs: David Geohegan and Chongwu Zhou
Thursday Afternoon, March 27, 2008
Room 3003 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *P13.1
Carbon Nanoflakes - Superb Electrocatalytic Activity. Pagona Papakonstantinou, Nanotechnology and Integrated BioEngineering Centre, University of Ulster, N. Ireland, United Kingdom.

2:00 PM P13.2
Exploring Electron-Phonon Coupling and Non-Equilibrium Transport in Suspended Carbon Nanotubes with Raman Spectroscopy. Adam W. Bushmaker1, Vikram V. Deshpande2, Marc W. Bockrath2 and Stephen B. Cronin1; 1Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 2Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

2:15 PM P13.3
Spectroscopy of Individual Carbon Nanotubes Using Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy. Alexandre Felten1, Carla Bittencourt2, Bastien Douhard1, Hubert Hody1, Jean-Jacques Pireaux1, Ebrahim Najafi3, Daniel Hernandez Cruz3 and Adam P. Hitchcock3; 1LISE, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium; 2LCIA, Universite de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium; 3Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

2:30 PM P13.4
Three-Dimensional Imaging of Carbon Nanotubes Deformed by Metal Islands by Electron Tomography. Judy Jeeyoung Cha1, Matthew Weyland1,3, Jean-Francois Briere2, Ivan P. Daykov2, Tomás A. Arias2 and David A. Muller1; 1School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 2Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 3Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.

2:45 PM P13.5
Evaluation of the Stiffness of Carbon Nanotube Probe by Force Curve Measurements. Motoyuki Hirooka1, Makoto Okai1, Hiroki Tanaka2 and Satoshi Sekino3; 1Materials Reserch Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan; 2Nanotechnology development center, Hitachi Kyowa Engineering Co., Ltd., Hitachi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan; 3Design Dept., Hitachi Kenki FineTech Co., Ltd., Tsuchiura, Ibaraki-ken, Japan.

3:00 PM BREAK

SESSION P14: Molecular and Chemical Sensors
Chair: Li-Chyong Chen
Thursday Afternoon, March 27, 2008
Room 3003 (Moscone West)

3:30 PM *P14.1
Molecular Sensors based on Carbon Nanostructures. Eric Snow, Erik Alldredge, Stefan C. Badescu, Navdeep Bajwa Bajwa, Keith Perkins, Tom Reinecke, Jeremy Robinson, Paul Sheehan and Zhongqing Wei; Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

4:00 PM P14.2
Selective Sensing of DMMP and NH3 Using CNTFET Array Based Gas Sensors Fabricated Using Metal Diversified Electrodes for Electronic Fingerprinting. Paolo Bondavalli1, Pierre Legagneux1 and Didier Pribat2; 1NANOCARB, Thales research and technology, Palaiseau, Essonne, France; 2LPICM, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Essonne, France.

4:15 PM P14.3
Detection of Small Molecules and Metal Ions using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Brett L. Allen1,2, Pingping Gou1, Padmakar D. Kichambare1 and Alexander Star1,2; 1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 2National Energy Technology Lab, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

4:30 PM P14.4
Carbon Nanotube/Polythiophene Hybrid Materials for High-performance Chemical Sensors. Fei Wang1 and Timothy M Swager2; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

4:45 PM P14.5
Chemoselective Polymers, Nanoparticles, and Nanotubes in Chemical Sensor and Preconcentrator Applications. Duane L. Simonson1, Robert Andrew McGill1, Michael R. Papantonakis1, Jennifer L. Stepnowski1,2 and Bernadette A. Higgins1; 1Code 6365, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia; 21900 Elkin Street, NOVA Research, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia.

SESSION P15: Poster Session: Field Emission and Electrical Devices
Thursday Evening, March 27, 2008
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)

P15.1
The Optical Responses of Dual-Gate and Triple-Gate Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Transistors and its Correlation with Electrical Behaviors. Jeng-Hua Wei and Ming-Jiu Huang; Ching Yun University, Jung-Li, Taiwan.

P15.2
Ambipolar Effect of Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor Self-assembled by Polystyrene Nanospheres. Yan Zhang, Di Wei, Daping Chu, Ken B.K. Teo, Gehan Amaratunga and William I. Milne; 23 - E6, Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

P15.3
Single Walled Carbon Nanotube - Polymer Composites: Observation of Electron Field Emission at Low Nanotube Mass Fractions. David Carey1, Thomas Connolly1, Richard Smith1, Yenny Hernandez2, Yurii Gun'ko3 and Jonathan Coleman2; 1Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom; 2School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 3School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

P15.4
Graphene-Based Solution-Processed Transparent Conductors. Hector Alejandro Becerril-Garcia1, Zunfeng Liu2, Jie Mao2, Yongsheng Chen2 and Zhenan Bao1; 1Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2Institute of Functional Polymer Materials, Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

P15.5
Low-voltage SWNT Thin-film Transistors with Functional Polymeric Nanolayer Dielectrics. Mark Roberts, Melburne LeMieux and Zhenan Bao; Chemical Engineering, Stanford, Stanford, California.

P15.6
Carbon Nanotube Switches for Extreme Environment Space Electronics. Anupama Bhat Kaul, Robert Kowalczyk, Michael J. Bronikowski, Paul von Allmen and Richard L. Baron; Jet Propulsion Labs, Pasadena, California.

P15.7
Field Emission Properties of Large Area Carbon Nanotube Cathodes in Different Electric Field Modes. Qingliang Liao1, Yue Zhang1, Junjie Qi1, Yunhua Huang1, Zhanjun Gao1, Liansheng Xia2 and Huang Zhang2; 1Department of Materials Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China; 2Institute of Fluid Physics, Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang, China.

P15.8
Reduced Graphene Oxide Thin Films for Flexible and Transparent Electronics. Goki Eda, Giovanni Fanchini and Manish Chhowalla; Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.

P15.9
Carbon Nanotubes Network/Block Copolymer Thin Film Transistors Modified by Inorganic Nanocrystals. Jinwoo Sung and Cheolmin Park; Material Science and Engineering, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea.

P15.10
Carbon Nanofibers under High-Current and Thermal Stress. Hirohiko Kitsuki, Tsutomu Saito, Patrick Wilhite, Toshishige Yamada and Cary Y Yang; Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.

P15.11
Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes and Fabrication of CNT Based Transistors. Himani Sharma1, Bopha Chhay2, Claudiu Muntele2, Daryush Ila2 and Zhigang Xiao1; 1Electrical Engineering, Alabama A & M University, Normal, Alabama; 2Center for Irradiation of Materials, Alabama A & M University, Normal, Alabama.

P15.12
Abstract Withdrawn

P15.13
Field Emission Studies from Patterned MWNT Cathodes Grown by E-field Enhanced CVD. Ranadeep Bhowmick1,2, Jessica Killian2, Jay Longson3, Cattien V Nguyen2, Bruce Clemens1 and Brett A Cruden2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2Nasa Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California; 3UC SantaCruz, SantaCruz, California.

P15.14
Field Emission Study of Carbon Nanotube Pillar Arrays Patterned Directly on Metal Alloy Surfaces. Jessica L. Killian1,2, Darrell L. Niemann3,4, Bryan P. Ribaya3,4, Mahmud Rahman3, Meyya Meyyappan4 and Cattien V. Nguyen1; 1Ames Center for Nanotechnology, ELORET/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California; 2Department of Chemistry, San Jose State University, San Jose, California; 3Electron Devices Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Dept, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara University, California; 4Ames Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

P15.15
Nanotube Potential Future in Nuclear Power. Claudiu Muntele1 and Liviu Popa-Simil2; 1CIM_AAMURI, Huntsville, Alabama; 2LAVM LLC, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

P15.16
A Study of Metal Silicide Formation and Carbon Nanotube Yield on CMOS- Compatible Metal Contacts. Shu- Pei Oei1, Jonathan L Hollander2 and William I Milne1; 1Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

P15.17
Electrochemical Charging of Carbon Nanotubes for Tunable Electron Field Emission Cathodes. Alexander Kuznetsov1, Norman Barisci1, Alexander Zakhidov2 and Anvar Zakhidov1; 1Nanotech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas; 2Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

P15.18
Electron Field Emission from Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Forests: Crater-type Forest Instability. Alexander Kuznetsov1, Anton Malko1, Anvar Zakhidov1 and Kenji Hata2; 1Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas; 2National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan.

P15.19
Towards Development and Characterization of Ionic Junction via Microcontact Printing. Yamini Yadav and Shalini Prasad; Electrical Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

P15.20
Printed Aligned Carbon Nanotube Thin-film Transistors for Flexible Transparent Electronics and Active Matrix Organic Light-emitting Diodes. Hsiao-Kang Chang, Fumiaki Ishikawa, Evgueni Polikarpov, Koungmin Ryu, Po-Chiang Chen, Mark Thompson and Chongwu Zhou; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

P15.21
Transferred Aligned Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Flexible and Wearable Electronics. Koungmin Ryu, Alexander Badmaev, Chuan Wang, Fijin Thomas and Chongwu Zhou; Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, LA, California.

P15.22
Transport Mechanism in Aligned Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Arrays. Vijay Singh, Raghu Mangu and Suresh KS Rajaputra; electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

SESSION P16: Poster Session: CNTs Based Nanocomposite and Sensor
Thursday Evening, March 27, 2008
8:00 PM
Room 3003 (Moscone West)

P16.1
Multilayer Fused Silica Based Carbon Nanotube and Carbon Fiber Microwave Absorbing Composite and its Mechanical Properties. Yong Zhu1,2 and Yubai Pan1; 1Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China; 2Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

P16.2
Abstract Withdrawn

P16.3
Alternative Energy Sources for Tailor-made Carbon Nanotubes and Nanotube Composites. Satoshi Ohara, Akira Kondo, Kazuyoshi Sato and Hiroya Abe; Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Japan.

P16.4
Abstract Withdrawn

P16.5
Nanopipette Catalyst Writing for Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Growth. Badr Omrane and Chris Papadopoulos; Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

P16.6
Weak Polyelectrolyte Control of Carbon Nanotube Dispersion in Water. Jaime C. Grunlan1,2,3 and Lei Liu3; 1Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; 2Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; 3Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

P16.7
Shaping the Interface of Carbon Nanotubes-reinforced Polymer Composites Through in-situ Polymerization. Shiren Wang1, Richard Liang2, Ben Wang2 and Chuck Zhang2; 1Industrial Engineering, Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, Texas; 2High-Performance Materials Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

P16.8
The Use of Supercritical Fluids for Selective Transport, Deposition and Assembly of Nanocrystals. Carlos A Fernandez, Emily Hoppes, Jacky Bekahzi, Marvin Warner and Raymond s Addleman; Energy and environmental directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, richland, Washington.

P16.9
Chemical Sensors from Graphene Oxide. Jeremy T Robinson, Zhongqing Wei, F. Keith Perkins, Paul E. Sheehan and Eric S. Snow; Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

P16.10
Carbon Nanotube-based Liquid Crystal Micro Lenses. Xiaozhi Wang, Tim Wilkinson, Ken Teo and W. I. Milne; Electrical Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

P16.11
Abstract Withdrawn

P16.12
Self-Organisation of Highly Structured Carbon-Nanotube-Polymer Composites. Izabela Jurewicz, Eric W Brunner, Piyapong Asanithi, Patnarin Worajittiphon, Richard P Sear, Joseph L Keddie and Alan B Dalton; Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.

P16.13
The Role of Dispersion on Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Vinyl Ester/Glass Fiber Composites. Laura Pena-Paras, Hubert Phillips, Dario Prieto-Centurion and Enrique V. Barrera; MEMS, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

P16.14
Abstract Withdrawn

P16.15
Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Films for Biocatalytic Electrodes. Dan Wang, Jeffrey J Rack and Liwei Chen; Chemistry & Biochemistry, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

P16.16
Abstract Withdrawn

P16.17
The Role of Interphases in Polymer Nanocomposites. Ramanathan Thillaiyan, Anny Flory and Catherine Brinson; mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Universtiy, Evanston, Illinois.

P16.18
Coaxial CNT-Polymer Wires by Electrospinning Method. Timothy Jay Longson1, Brett A. Cruden2, Claire Gu1 and Ranadeep Bhowmick3; 1Electrical Engineering, UCSC, Santa Cruz, California; 2Nano Research, NASA Ames, Moffett field, California; 3Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford, Stanford, California.

P16.19
Dispersion of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes Induced by Structural Effect of Perylene Derivatives and their Optoelectronic Properties. Jin-Hyon Lee1, Seon-Mi Yoon2, Ki Kang Kim3, Jae-Young Choi2, Young Hee Lee3 and Ungyu Paik1; 1Division of Advanced Materials Science Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea; 2Display Device & Material Lab., Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, South Korea; 3Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea.

P16.20
Abstract Withdrawn

P16.21
Two-dimensional Gel Dielectrophoretic Separation of Metallic and Semiconducting Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes. Charles Garson1,3,4, Xuliang Han2,4 and Ryan Giedd4,3,1; 1Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri; 2Brewer Science, Rolla, Missouri; 3Center for Applied Science and Engineering, Springfield, Missouri; 4Roy Blunt Jordan Valley Innovation Center, Springfield, Missouri.

P16.22
Abstract Withdrawn

P16.23
Transparent Boron-Doped Carbon Nanotube Films. Xiaoming Liu1, Hugo Romero1, Humberto Rodriguez Gutierrez1 and Peter Clay Eklund1,2; 1Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

P16.24
Size-dependent Solubility in Catalyst Nanoparticles and its Influence on the Growth of One-dimensional Nanostructures. Na Li, Teh Tan, Neha Awasthi, Wahyu Setyawan and Stefano Curtarolo; Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

P16.25
Solution Phase Synthesis of Nanocomposites between Thiolated Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Gold Nanorod. Mingdong Dong1, Zhangquan Peng2, Kim Daasbjerg2 and Flemming Besenbacher1; 1Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.

P16.26
One-Dimensional Lipid Bilayers on Carbon Nanotube Templates: Structure, Mobility, and Device Integration. Shih-Chieh Huang1,2, Alexander Artyukhin1, Julio Martinez1,3, Donald Sirbuly1, Yinmin Wang1, Jiann-Wen Ju2, Pieter Stroeve3, Olgica Bakajin1 and Aleksandr Noy1; 1Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Livermore, California; 2UCLA, Los Angeles, California; 3UC Davis, Davis, California.

P16.27
Ink Jet Printing Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Nanotube/DNA Heteromixtures. Jan Sumerel, FUJIFILM Dimatix, Santa Clara, California.

P16.28
Development of a Nanocrystalline Diamond Electrode for Lactic Acid Detection. Jessica E. Weber1, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta2 and Ashok Kumar1; 1Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; 2Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

P16.29
Abstract Withdrawn

P16.30
Highly Selective Detection of NO2 Pollutant in Atmospheric Air. Sean Brahim, Steve Colbern, Robert Gump and Leonid Grigorian; Sensors/Carbon Nanotubes, YTC America Inc., Camarillo, California.

P16.31
Optically Active Composites made of Silica and Carbon Nanotubes. Satishkumar B Chikkannanavar1, Stephen K Doorn2 and Andrew M Dattelbaum1; 1Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; 2Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

P16.32
Optical Properties of Hybrid Nanocomplexes of Quantum Dots and Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes. Hyeonggon Kang1, Matthew Clarke1, Zhenping Zhou2, Jianyong Tang1, John Woodward1, Tinh Tinh Nguyen2 and Jeeseong Hwang1; 1Laser Application, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland; 2Materials Research and Construction Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

P16.33
A CNT Electrode Ionization-Type Gas Sensor. Alex E. Moser and Leonid Grigorian; YTC America, Inc., Camarillo, California.

P16.34
Attempts to Observe Hydrogen Spillover Phenomena on Carbon. Hugo Romero1,2, Humberto R Gutierrez1, Prasoon Joshi2 and Peter C Eklund1,3; 1Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; 3Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

P16.35
Composite Polymer Nanofibers with Carbon Nanotubes and Titanium Dioxide Particles with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity. Yachin Cohen, Shahar Kedem and Yaron Paz; Chemical Engineering Dept., Technion, Haifa, Israel.

P16.36
Size Dependent Morphology and Mechanics of Carbon Nanotube Ropes. Moneesh Upmanyu, Engineering Division, Materials Science Program, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado; Bioengineering and Life Sciences Program, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.

SESSION P17: Process and Assembly II
Chairs: Zhongfan Liu and John Robertson
Friday Morning, March 28, 2008
Room 2005 (Moscone West)

EARLY START

8:00 AM *P17.1
Nanoelectronics and Macroelectronics Based on Massively Aligned Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes. Chongwu Zhou, Dept. of Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

8:30 AM P17.2
3D Pick-and-Place of Carbon Nanotubes Using Shape-optimized Grippers. Peter Boggild1, Kenneth Korp Carlson1, Özlem Sardan1, Volkmar Eichhorn3, Karin Nordstrøm Andersen1, Dirch Hjort Petersen1, Ian Y. Y. Bu4, Ken B. K Teo4, William I Milne4, Sergej Fatikow3 and Ole Sigmund2; 1MIC - Department of Micro and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark; 2MEK - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark; 3Division Microrobotics and Control Engineering, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany; 4Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

8:45 AM P17.3
Selective Placement of Carbon Nanotubes. Ali Afzali, James B Hannon, Julie Bardecker, George Tulevski and Teresita O Graham; T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights, New York.

9:00 AM P17.4
Nanoprober-Based Pick-and-Place Process for Site-Specific Characterization of Individual Carbon Nanotubes. Thomas Hantschel, Peter Ryan, Saku Palanne, Olivier Richard, Kai Arstila, Anne Sofie Verhulst, Francesca Clemente, Hugo Bender and Wilfried Vandervorst; IMEC, Leuven, Belgium.

9:15 AM P17.5
Theory of Superplasticity and Atomic Relaxation in Nanotubes and Fullerenes. Feng Ding1, Kun Jiao1, Yu Lin1, Jianyu Huang2,1 and Boris I Yakobson1; 1ME&MS, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 2CINT, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

9:30 AM P17.6
Carbon Nanotube Based Photocathodes. Pierre Legagneux1, Ludovic Hudanski1, Nicolas Le Sech1, Ken B.K Teo2, Eric Minoux1, Laurent Gangloff2, Jean-Philippe Schnell1, Stéphane Xavier3, Costel Cojocaru3, John Robertson2, William I Milne2 and Didier Pribat3; 1Nanocarb, Thales R&T, Palaiseau, France; 2Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 3LPICM, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.

9:45 AM BREAK

SESSION P18: Novel Properties: Electronic, Spin and Photoconductivity
Chairs: Li-Chyong Chen and David Geohegan
Friday Morning, March 28, 2008
Room 2005 (Moscone West)

10:15 AM *P18.1
Axial Band Structure Engineering of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Targeting Electronic Devices. Zhongfan Liu, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China.

10:45 AM P18.2
Terahertz Time-Domain Detection of Ballistic Electron Resonance in a Single-walled Carbon Nanotube. Zhaohui Zhong1, Nathaniel M. Gabor1,2, Jay E. Sharping4, Alexander L. Gaeta1,3 and Paul L. McEuen1,2; 1Center for Nanoscale Systems, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 2Laboratory of Atomic and Solid-State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 3School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 4School of Natural Sciences, University of California at Merced, Merced, California.

11:00 AM P18.3
Dielectric Response of SWNTs and its Application in Assaying for Metallic Content in SWNT Mixtures. Wei Lu, Yao Xiong, Dan Wang and Liwei Chen; Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.


11:15 AM P18.4
Modeling Spin Qubit in Carbon Peapods. Ling Ge1, Barbara Montanari2, John H. Jefferson1,3, David G. Pettifor1, Nicholas M. Harrison2 and Andrew D. Briggs1; 1Materials, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2STFC Rutherford appleton Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom; 3Sensors and Electronics Division, QinetiQ, Malvern, United Kingdom.

11:30 AM P18.5
Infrared Detection and Electron Transport Characteristics of a Carbon nanotubes/Si Heterodimensional Heterostructure. Teng-Fang Kuo1, Marian B. Tzolov2, Daniel A. Straus1 and Jimmy Xu1; 1Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; 2Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.

11:45 AM P18.6
Photoconductive Lifetimes of Carbon Nanotubes Films. Katherine E. Hurst1, Richard K. Ahrenkiel2, Steve W. Johnston2, Anne C. Dillon2, Lara K. Roberson1 and John H. Lehman1; 1National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado; 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado.



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