Pacifichem Symposium #135

Carbon Nanotubes and Nano-Carbon Materials: Preparation, Characterization, and Applications

Updated: December 16, 2010

Symposium #135 at Pacifichem 2010 in the Topic Area of Materials & Nanotechnology

December 15-20, 2010
Hawaii, USA.

Organized by: Shigeo Maruyama (The University of Tokyo), R. Bruce Weisman (Rice University), Jie Liu (Duke University), Young Hee Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)

This symposium will focus on the preparation, characterization, and application of carbon nanotubes and related nano-carbon materials such as fullerenes and graphene. Papers are invited in the following areas: (1) New developments in methods for growth, dispersion, and chemical functionalization and processing; (2) Characterization by spectroscopic techniques such as Raman scattering, photoluminescence, Rayleigh scattering, as well as microscopic techniques such as electron and scanning probe microscopies; (3) Purification and structural separation of nano-carbon materials by density-gradient centrifugation, chromatography, dielectrophoresis, and chemical approaches; (4) Applications of nano-carbon materials in biology, medicine, electronics, solar energy harvesting, advanced materials, etc.

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List of Invited Speakers

Yohji Achiba (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Sivaram Arepalli (Sungkyunkwan University)
Yongsheng Chen (Nankai University)
Gugang Chen (Honda Research Institute USA Inc.)
Hee Chul Choi (POSTECH, Korea)
Jae Young Choi (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology)
Hongjie Dai (Stanford University)
Stephen K. Doorn (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Harry C. Dorn (Virginia Tech)
Morinobu Endo (Shinsyu University)
Paul Finnie (National Research Council Canada)
Takanori Fukushima (Riken, Japan)
Dirk M. Guldi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg)
Robert C. Haddon (University of California Riverside)
Robert Hauge (Rice University)
Tony F. Heinz (Columbia University)
Mark C. Hersam (Northwestern University)
Yoshikazu Homma (Tokyo University of Science)
Seunghun Hong (Seoul National University)
Yoshihiro Iwasa (University of Tokyo)
Ernesto Joselevich (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Manfred Kappes (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Hiroshi Kawarada (Waseda University)
Philip Kim (Columbia University)
Junichiro Kono (Rice University)
Young Hee Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)
Chang Liu (Institute of Metal Research, China)
Jie Liu (Duke University)
Yutaka Maeda (Tokyo Gakugei University)
Shigeo Maruyama (The University of Tokyo)
Kazunari Matsuda (Kyoto University)
Kazuhiko Matsumoto (Osaka University)
Takashi Mizutani (Nagoya University)
Suguru Noda (The University of Tokyo)
Toshiya Okazaki (AIST, Japan)
Andrew G. Rinzler (University of Florida)
John Rogers (Illionois)
Riichiro Saito (Tohoku University)
Hisanori Shinohara (Nagoya University)
Zi Kang Tang (HongKong University of Science and Technology)
Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (NIMS, Japan)
Fei Wei (Tsinghua University)
R. Bruce Weisman (Rice University)
Masako Yudasaka (AIST, Japan)
Jin Zhang (Peking University)
Ming Zheng (NIST, Japan)
Otto Zhou (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)


Co-Sponsored by

The Fullerenes and Nanotubes Research Society (Japan)
'Carbon Nantobe Nano-Electronics', Specific Area Research, MEXT (Japan)
GCOE for Mechanical Systems Innovation at The University of Tokyo (Japan)


Contact: maruyama [at] photon.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp