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Rice University, Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, MS 222,... 

Another major center of research on carbon nanotubes has been the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University. The center s director from 1997 to his death in 2005 was Richard Smalley, who was awarded a share of the 1997 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his part in the discovery of a new allotrope of carbon. The discovery, a 60-atom soccer hall-shaped particle originally named buckminsterfullerene, is more commonly known as a buckyball. The structure of a buckyball is shown in the photograph on page 91. 

James M. Tour / Departments of Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and Center for Nanoscale Science, and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, US. A... 

Page 411 (Figure 11.7) was obtained from the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University via http //cnst.rice.edu/images/Tubel010a.tif. 

Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433 Aeronautical Systems Center, Major Shared Resource Center for High Performance Computing, 3005 P Street, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433 Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005... 

A smart brick concept was developed recently by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology that can be used to monitor a building s health, and hence can help to prevent disasters. The system, combined sensor fusion, signal processing, wireless technology and basic construction... 

Currently the star of worldwide nanotechnology attention is focused on molecular electronics. Dr. James M. Tour, head of the molecular electronics effort at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University, whose work focuses on the super small world of nanotechnology, has proposed experiments in which computer electronics are built from the bottom up, molecule by molecule. Bottom up nanoscale construction is patterned after nature, with molecules forming cells that form tissues that form organs that form systems that finally form a total organism or person. 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the Center for Nanoscale Science, an NSF Materials Research and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the Pennsylvania State University and also Schott Glass Technologies (Duryea, PA, USA) for their support. 

Present Address. Use Katz Center for Meso- and Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel... 

OTTO Z. ZHOU is an associate professor of materials science and physics and the director of the North Carolina Center for Nanoscale Materials at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HiU. His research is focused on synthesis and solid state properties of nanoscale materials and their energy-storage, vacuum microelectronics, and nano-composite applications. He is the founding director of the North Carolina Center for Nanoscale Materials, which has 15 associated... 

Arizona State University, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Southern California, Harvard University, Nanotechnology in Society Network Centers from the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education Solicitation Northwestern Uifiversity, Nanotechnology Center for Leanfing and Teaching. 

This work was made possible by award W81 x WH-04-0158 from the Department of Defense to JA grant 1392 from the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society of America to JA Brain Science Foundation to NYRA American Brain Tumor Association to NYRA, and the Daniel E. Ponton Fund for the Neurosciences to NYRA. We acknowledge the Brandeis University Mass Spectrometry Resource, and the Brandeis University Animal Care Facility for care of instruments and animals, respectively. This work was performed in part at the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS), a member of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), which is supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF award no. ECS-0335765. CNS is part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. We also wish to thank Ed Dougherty for maintenance and support of optical microscopy at Brandeis University, Drs. Sacha Nelson and Ken Sugino for transgenic mice, and we also wish to thank Dr. Lata G. Menon for animal surgery and manipulations. 

Empire Innovation Professor of Nanoengineering Executive Director Center for Sustainable Ecosystem Nanotechnologies, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12203. 

Acknowledgments. The authors acknowledge funding from NSF-NSEC at RPI for direct assembly of nanostructures (Nanoscale Science and Engineering Initiative of the National Science Foundation under NSF award number DMR-0117792) and the Focus Center New York for Electronic Interconnects at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This work was also supported by the U.S. Army Research Office under contract W911NF041038. The content of the information does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the federal government, and no official endorsement should be inferred. 

NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Department of Plastics Engineering,University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, 01854 Sivasubramanian Somu, Xugang Xiong, Ahmed Busnaina,... 

Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Affordable Nanoengineering of Polymeric Biomedical Devices, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,... 

This research was supported by a grant (M102KN010005-06K1401-00530) from Center for Nanoscale Mechatronics Manufacturing, one of the 21st Century Frontier Research Programs, which are supported by Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea. 

This book will be an indispensable source of knowledge in laboratories or research centers that specialize in fundamental and practical aspects of heterogeneous catalysis, electrochemistry, and fuel cells. Its unique presentation of the key basic research on such topics in a rich interdisciplinary context will facilitate the researcher s task of improving catalytic materials, in particular for fuel cell applications, based on scientihc logic rather than expensive Edisonian trial-and-error methods. The highlight of the volume is the rich and comprehensive coverage of experimental and theoretical aspects of nanoscale surface science and electrochemistry. We hope that readers will beneht from its numerous ready-to-use theoretical formalisms and experimental protocols of general scientihc value and utility. 

The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (http //www.cnms.ornl.gov/) will concentrate on synthesis, characterization, theory/ modeling/simulation, and design of nanoscale materials. The NSF also funds several related facilities, such as the Cornell Uni-... 

Dr. Shaun Jones, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University Dr. Peter Jutro, Deputy Director for Science and Policy, National Homeland Security Research Center, Environmental Protection Agency Dr. Michael Kaminski, Nuclear Forensics and Nanoscale Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory... 

Deanna L. Pickel joined the research staff at the Center for Nanophase Materials Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in July 2007. Her research interests are in the precise synthesis and characterization of well-defined materials, both in functionality and in architecture, to better understand the relationship between molecular structure and self-assembly at the nanoscale. In particular, she is interested in the use of MALDI-TOF MS to better understand the mechanism of various polymerization and functionalization chemistries. Deanna received her BS in chemistry and BA in mathematics in 1999 from Saint Mary s College in Notre Dame, IN, and PhD in 2003 from the University of Akron in polymer science under professor Roderic Quirk. Her doctoral research focused on the anionic synthesis and characterization of end functional polymers. She then joined Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, TN, where she worked on various process improvement projects and was a project leader for work on the weatherability of copolyesters. She moved to the Center for Nanophase Materials Science in July 2007, where she is a member of the Maaomolecular Nanomaterials Group. She is the recipient of the 2002 Eastman Chemical Company Fellowship, as well as a finalist in the 2002 Id Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. 

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