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RPI Scientist Honored for Carbon Nanotube Research

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Pulickel Ajayan, the Henry Burlage Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y., has received the MRS Medal from the Materials Research Society for his carbon nanotube research. Soon after the first report of carbon nanotubes appeared in 1991, Ajayan and his colleagues at NEC Corp. reported the large-scale synthesis of nanotubes using the electric arc-discharge method. In 1993, he showed how nanotubes could be opened and filled with foreign materials using oxidation and capillarity effects. He has produced several seminal papers...Read full article

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