International Conference on the
Science and Application of Nanotubes

Boston College (USA)

July 6-11, 2002

NT'02 Conference Schedule

8:30-9:15   Sa-Ky1 (I26).
"T. B. A."
by  Richard E. Smalley

9:15-9:45   Sa-In1 (I2).
"Computational Diagnosis of Defective Nanotubes: Stability with Respect to Thermal and Optical Perturbations"
by  Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Savas Berber, Mina Yoon, Angel Rubio, and David Tomanek

10:15-10:45   Sa-In2 (I8).
"Coalescence and Nanoscale Welding of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes."
by  J.C. Charlier, M. Terrones, F. Banhart, N. Grobert, H. Terrones, P.M. Ajayan

10:45-11:15   Sa-In3 (I20).
"Electronic Properties of (Gd@C₈₂)_n@SWNT Peapods"
by  Hisanori Shinohara

11:15-11:30  

Sa-PS1-Sy1 (P48).
"Chemical probe method for structure analysis of SWNTs with thermogravimetric measurements"
by  M. Yudasaka, M. Zhang, A. Koshio, S. Iijima

15:45-16:00   Sa-P++2 (P206).
"In-situ Chemical Study of Aqueous Fluid Inside Carbon Nanotubes"
by  Nevin Naguib, Haihui Ye, Yury Gogotsi, Almila Guvenc Yazicioglu, and Constantine Megaridis

8:30-9:15   Su-Ky2 (I7).
"EELS investigation of plasmons in individual nanotubes"
by  C. Colliex, M. Kociak, O. Stephan, D.Taverna

9:15-9:45   Su-In4 (I6).
"Spinning Carbon Nanotubes Fibers"
by  S. Badaire, B. Vigolo, C. Zakri, M. Maugey, A. Derré, P. Poulin, P. Launois, M. Lucas

10:15-10:45   Su-In5 (I9).
"Fabrication, Characterization and Property of Aligned Multi-walled Carbon nanotubes"
by  S. S. Xie, W.Y Zhou, Z. W. Pan, B. H. Chang, W. Z. Li, L. Lu

10:45-11:15   Su-In6 (I5).
"Formation Mechanism and Controlled Growth of Boron Nitride Nanotubes Produced by Mechano-thermal Process"
by  Y. Chen, J. Fitzgerald and M. Conway

11:15-11:30   Su-P++3 (P8).
"Massively parallel simulations of nanotube and peapod formation"
by  Syogo Tejima, Mikio Iizuka, Kazuo Minami, Hisashi Nakamura, Mina Yoon, Savas Berber, David Tomanek, Noejung Park, Hiroshi Okuda

15:45-16:00   Su-P++4 (P208).
"Self assembly of catalyst for periodic arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes"
by  Jakub Rybczynski, Michael Hilgendorff, Michael Giersig

8:30-9:15   Mo-Ky3 (I17).
"Carbon nanotubes and nanofibers with different morphology"
by  M. Endo, Y. A. Kim

9:15-9:45   Mo-In7 (I4).
"Are Carbon Nanostructures an Efficient Hydrogen Storage Medium?"
by  M. Hirscher, M. Becher, M. Haluska, X. Chen, U. Dettlaff-Weglikoska, and S. Roth

10:15-10:45   Mo-In8 (I21).
"Adsorptive and sieving properties of single wall carbon nanohorns for gases"
by  K. Kaneko, H. Tanaka, H. Kanoh, K. Murata, D. Kasuya, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, F. Kokai and K. Takahashi

10:45-11:15   Mo-In9 (I11).
"Feynman Crystal Growth Within Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes"
by  J. Sloan, A.I. Kirkland, J.L. Hutchison and M.L.H. Green

11:15-11:30   Mo-P++5 (P51).
"Raman investigation of collective electronic effects in carbon nanotubes"
by  Chaoyang Jiang, Kris Kempa, Jialong Zhao, Ulrich Schlecht, Yuwei Fan, Thomas Basch, Ute Kolb, Marko Burghard, Alf Mews

8:30-9:15   Tu-Ky4 (I15).
"Single Carbon Nanotube Spectroscopy"
by  M. S. Dresselhaus, R. Saito, A. Jorio, A. G. Souza Filho, G. Dresselhaus, Ge. G. Samsonidze, M. A. Pimenta

9:15-9:45   Tu-In10 (I28).
"Boron-, Nitrogen- and Iron-doped Carbon Nanomaterials: Controlled Synthesis, Electronic Properties and Novel Molecular Devices"
by  M. Terrones*, P.M. Ajayan, Y. Bando, F. Banhart, M. Baxendale, D.L. Carroll, J.-C. Charlier, R. Czerw, N. Grobert, D. Golberg, W.K. Hsu, R. Kamalakaran, F. López-Urías, J.L. Morán-López, E. Muñoz-Sandoval, M. Mayne, D. Ramírez, M. Reyes-Reyes, N.L. Rupesinghe, T. Seeger, H. Terrones

10:15-10:45   Tu-In11 (I3).
"Superconductivity in carbon nanotubes"
by  M. Ferrier, M. Kociak, A. Kasumov, S. Gueron, B. Reulet and H. Bouchiat

10:45-11:15   Tu-In12 (I24).
"Multiwall Carbon Nanotube formation from CVD and the stability of ultra-narrow inner tubes"
by  G.A.J. Amaratunga, I.Alexandrou, M.Chhowalla, C. Ducati, N. Sano, D. Roy, K.Teo

11:15-11:30   Tu-P++6 (P210).
"Raman and Infrared Active Modes of BN-nanotubes"
by  L. Wirtz, A. Rubio, R. Arenal de la Concha, A. Loiseau, F. Ducastelle, and S. Lefrant

15:45-16:00   Tu-P++7 (P178).
"Curvature-induced polarization in carbon nanoshells"
by  Traian Dumitrica, Chad M. Landis, Boris I. Yakobson

8:30-9:15   We-Ky5 (I22).
"Carbon Nanotube Electronics"
by  Phaedon Avouris

9:15-9:45   We-In13 (I1).
"Electronic Properties of Nanotube Intramolecular Junctions"
by  Ph. Lambin

10:15-10:45   We-In14 (I13).
"Effects of Pi and Sigma Interactions on the Bandgaps of Quasimetallic Carbon Nanotubes"
by  C.T. White, J.W. Mintmire, and I. Cabria

10:45-11:15   We-In15 (I18).
"Mapping the One-dimensional Electronic States of Nanotube Peapods Structures"
by  Ali Yazdani

11:15-11:30   We-P++8 (P171).
"Y-junction Carbon Nanotubes"
by  W.Z. Li, J.G. Wen, Z.F. Ren

15:45-16:00   We-P++9 (P165).
"Carbon nanotube for nanoelectronics"
by  Wonbong Choi, Byoung-Ho Cheong, Jujin Kim, Jaeuk Ju, Eunju Bae, G.S Chung

8:30-9:15   Th-Ky6 (I27).
"T. B. A."
by  Charles M. Lieber

9:15-9:45   Th-In16 (I19).
"Fabrication and Application of Functional Macroscopic Structures of Carbon Nanotubes: from Self-Assembly to Imaging"
by  Otto Zhou

10:15-10:45   Th-In17 (I12).
"Optical Properties and Resonant Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes"
by  R. Saito, A. Grueneis, A. Jorio, A. G. Souza Filho, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, Ge. G. Samsonidze, L. G. Cancado, M. A. Pimenta

10:45-11:15   Th-In18 (I16).
"Exploring the concave nanospace inside single wall nanotubes by Raman scattering"
by  H. Kuzmany, T. Pichler, R. Pfeiffer, A. Kukovecz, F. Zerbetto, and M. Melle-Franco

11:15-11:45   Th-In19 (I14).
"Field electron emission from isolated nanotubes"
by  Jean-Marc Bonard

11:45-12:15   Th-In20 (I10).
"Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes: Dynamics of Charge-Carriers and Energetics of Gas-Surface Interactions"
by  Tobias Hertel, Gunnar Moos, Hendrik Ulbricht, Jennah Kriebel, and Roman Fasel

14:00-14:30   Th-In21

14:30-14:45   Th-P++11

14:45-15:00   Th-P++12