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NCCNM MURI Meeting Schedule
May 14-15, 1998

May 14th

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Morning Session
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8:00-8:30: Registration, distribution of review books.

8:30-9:00: Welcome remarks by UNC-CH administrators (Tom Clegg, Risa Palm, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences...).

9:00-9:30: Introduction and short presentations (DoD).

9:30-9:50: Program overview presentation by NCCNM Co-Directors

        I.  Washburn -- organization, management plan, fiscal issues, hiring, subcontract

        II. Zhou -- objectives, scientific approach, infrastructure, equipment purchase

9:50-10:30: Overview of the four thrust areas and the theory effort.   

        I.  Zhou -- synthesis and fabrication

        II. Superfine -- mechanical properties

        III.Washburn -- electronic, magnetic and optical properties

        IV. Boland -- applications

        V.  Bernholc -- theoretical investigation

10:30-10:45: Coffee Break

10:45-11:00: Zhou "Fabrication and Solid State Properties of Nanotubes and Their Derivatives"

11:00-11:15: Desimone

11:15- 11:30: Samulski "Compatibilizing Nanotubes for Reinforcements in Polymer Composites"

11:30-11:45: Tsui "Nucleation and Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Epitaxial Transition Metal Islands"

11:45-12:00: Bernholc

12:00-12:15: Roland "Growth of Carbon Nanotubes: Mechanisms and Simulations"

12:15-1:15: Lunch Break. Catered lunch boxes.

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Afternoon Session
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1:15-2:15: Tour of the NanoManipulator Lab and presentations by Taylor, Pizer and Superfine.

Taylor -- "The Nano-Manipulator: a Virtual-Reality Interface to Scanning Probe Microscopes"

Pizer --

Superfine -- "Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes"

2:30-2:45: UNC Chancellor Hooker (tentative).

2:45-3:00: Brenner "Energies, Stresses and Semiempirical Electronic Structure of Strained Tubules"

3:00-3:15: Washburn "Electrical and Electro-mechanical Studies of Carbon Nanotubes"

3:15-3:30: Wu "Real-Time Observation of H2 Adsorption and Desorption in Carbon Nanotubes"

3:30-3:45: Coffee Break

3:45-4:00: Boland "STM Studies of Carbon Nanotubes"

4:00-4:15: McNeil "Raman and Brillouin Spectroscopic Analysis of Nanoscale Materials"

4:15-4:30: Lu "Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Nanotubes and Nanotube-based Devices"

4:30-4:45: Mintmire (NRL)

4:45-5:45: Break (DoD review panel meeting)

5:45-6:15: Feedback session with DoD representatives.

6:30-8:30: Dinner

May 15th

8:30-11:30: Lab tour (UNC Physics and Chemistry).


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