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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. 

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

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. 

This extremely flexible process relies on forced-assembly to achieve nanoscale structure. The new National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center for Layered Polymeric Systems (CLIPS) at Case promotes rapid growth of this nanoscale technology and facihtates its translation to the conmieicial sector through irmovative research and education partnerships. The primary goals of CLIPS are to ... 

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. 

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