Graduate Seminar - Engineering Materials at the Nanoscale: Prospects and Challenges" by Prof Ajayan

Duncan Hall 1070 - Nanotechnology has tremendous possibilities in the future but some of the outcomes will depend on how well one can engineer structures at the nanoscale. Engineering at the nanoscale differs from conventional engineering and relies mainly on concepts such as bottom up self-assembly, which poses great challenges in obtaining defect free architectures. This talk will focus on various processes that allow obtaining controlled nanostructure building blocks and engineering these into useful architectures. Carbon nanotubes, a material with many applications, will be used as an example to demonstrate the grand challenges in nanoscale engineering.