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2012 NanoExplorers Announced
The faculty, staff, and students of the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute at The University of Texas at Dallas welcome the 2012 class of NanoExplorers. We had over 200 highly qualified applicants this year. (see more)
Nanodays 2012: presented by the NanoTech Institute and the Ft. Worth Museum of Natural Science & History, March 31, 2012
Come join us at the Ft. Worth Museum of Natural Science & History as we present an exciting look into the world of nano science during Nanodays 2012 on March 31st. (see more)
Research is Teaching: Mentors Inspire Lives of Discovery
It was pretty brazen of then-16-year-old Ray Baughman, drenched and wearing his Sunday best, to trek around the University of Pittsburgh one rainy summer day in 1958 making cold calls on various professors by knocking on doors. (see more)
NanoExplorers Program for High-Schoolers Lauded with Award
A UT Dallas program aimed at igniting interest in the sciences among high school students earned a Tech Titan award from the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC). (see more)
"Ray Baughman creates artificial muscles"
Nature has been developing her technologies for many hundreds of millions of years, said Ray Baughman. “By looking at the way in which nature has solved problems like muscles, we can advance our own technologies.” Baughman is director of the NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas. (see more)
"Mirage effect from thermally modulated transparent carbon nanotube sheets" published in IOP Science
The single-beam mirage effect, also known as photothermal deflection, is studied using a free-standing, highly aligned carbon nanotube aerogel sheet as the heat source. The extremely low thermal capacitance and high heat transfer ability of these transparent forest-drawn carbon nanotube sheets enables high frequency modulation of sheet emperature over an enormous temperature range, thereby providing a sharp, rapidly changing gradient of refractive index in the surrounding liquid or gas.(see more)
Dr. Ray Baughman named one of "Dallas' Big Thinkers" by D Magazine
We gave the world the microchip and the margarita machine. Here are six cool scientists whose brains are making waves...Earlier this year, Ray Baughman told NPR that he has created a special “multifunctional” yarn. Imagine a shirt that doubles as a battery or a soldier’s uniform that could cool him in the battlefield. (see more)
UT Dallas NanoExplorers Present Summer Research
A group of local high school students accepted a rare opportunity to participate in a summer of high-tech research at UT Dallas.
They took part in the George A. Jeffrey NanoExplorers Program focusing on nanotechnology research in such areas as biomedical research, armed forces protection, solar energy and water purification. (see more)
Teen Scientists to Present Research from UT Dallas
"Thirty-five high school students have spent their summer in UT Dallas labs, where they have been encouraged to come up with research questions and learn the skills necessary to test their ideas and play with new concepts." (see more)
NanoTech Director Makes List of Top Researchers
"UT Dallas scientist Dr. Ray Baughman has been ranked one of the decade’s top 100 material scientists in a list compiled by Thomson Reuters.
Baughman, who ranked 30th according to the study, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas; a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry; and an academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences." (see more)
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