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Spring 2010 Logo2010 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

April 5-9, 2010 | San Francisco
Meeting Chairs: Anne C. Dillon, Robin W. Grimes, Paul C. McIntyre, Darrin J. Pochan

Symposium R : Carbon Nanotubes and Related Low-Dimensional Materials

2010-04-06   Show All Abstracts

Symposium Organizers

David B. Geohegan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John Robertson Cambridge University
Kuei-Hsien Chen Academia Sinica
Jie Liu Duke University
R1: Growth Modelling
Session Chairs
David Geohegan
A. John Hart
Tuesday PM, April 06, 2010
Room 2020 (Moscone West)

9:00 AM - R1.1
Computer Simulation Studies of Carbon Nanotube – Catalyst Particle Interfaces.

Anders Boerjesson 2 , Hakim Amara 3 , Kim Bolton 4 2 , Christophe Bichara 1
2 Department of Physics, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg Sweden, 3 Laboratoire d'Etudes des Microstructures , ONERA-CNRS , Chatillon France, 4 School of Engineering, University of Borås, Borås Sweden, 1 , CINaM CNRS, Marseille France

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9:15 AM - R1.2
Carbon Nanotube Nucleation versus Encapsulation Probed by MD Simulations.

Morgana Ribas 1 , Feng Ding 3 , Perla Balbuena 4 , Boris Yakobson 1 2
1 Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States, 3 Institute of Textile and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong China, 4 Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States, 2 Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States

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9:30 AM - **R1.3
In Quest for Chirality Knob in the Nanotube Growth.

Boris Yakobson 1 , Alex Dobrinsky 1 , Feng Ding 1 , Yuanyue Liu 1 , Enrique Munoz 1
1 ME&MS, and Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States

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10:00 AM - R1.4
Chirality Selection During Catalytic Nucleation of Carbon Nanotubes.

JinJin Wang 1 , John Robertson 1
1 Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom

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10:15 AM - R1.5
Understanding the Growth Transition From Carbon Nanotubes to Carbon Nanofibers.

Ranadeep Bhowmick 1 2 , Brett Cruden 2 , Bruce Clemens 1
1 , Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States, 2 , NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States

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10:30 AM - R1.6
Material Properties in Codimension > 0: Graphene Edge Properties.

Paulo Branicio 1 , David Srolovitz 1
1 Materials Theory and Simulation Laboratory, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Singapore

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10:45 AM - R1
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R2: Nanotube Forest Growth
Session Chairs
David Geohegan
A. John Hart
Tuesday PM, April 06, 2010
Room 2020 (Moscone West)

11:15 AM - **R2.1
Making Carbon Nanotube Forests: From Collective Growth Mechanics to Multifunctional Materials.

A. John Hart 1 , Eric Meshot 1 , Mostafa Bedewy 1 , Sameh Tawfick 1 , Erik Polsen 1
1 Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

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11:45 AM - R2.2
Controlled Structure of MWNT by Adjusting Metal-support Interactions in High-surface Area Catalysts.

Veronica Irurzun 1 , James Brown 1 , Daniel Resasco 1
1 CBME, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States

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12:00 PM - R2.3
Efficient Hydrocarbon Precursors for Rapid and Clean Carbon Nanotube Growth.

Eric Meshot 1 , Desiree Plata 2 , Christopher Reddy 3 , Philip Gschwend 2 , A. John Hart 1
1 Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 3 Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States

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12:15 PM - **R2.4
Preferential Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Metallic Conductivity.

Avetik Harutyunyan 1
1 materials Science , Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Columbus, Ohio, United States

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12:45 PM - R2.5
Versatile Carbon Hybrid Films Composed of Vertical Carbon Nanotubes Grown on Graphene Film Substrates.

Sang Ouk Kim 1 , Rodney Ruoff 2
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon Korea (the Republic of), 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Austin, Texas, United States

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R3: <i>In-situ</i> Growth Studies
Session Chairs
Jie Liu
Shigeo Maruyama
Tuesday PM, April 06, 2010
Room 2020 (Moscone West)

2:30 PM - **R3.1
In-situ Studies on the Role of the Catalyst During Carbon Nanotube CVD.

Stephan Hofmann 1
1 Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom

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