Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute

2005

“A New Type of Artificial Muscle Yarn for Artificial Muscle and Other Multifunctional Materials Applications”, Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites Workshop - NASA, CAER, UK, University of Kentucky (Jan. 11-12, 2005, Lexington, Kentucky).

“A New Type of Artificial Muscle Yarn for Artificial Muscle and Other Multifunctional Materials Applications”, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Jan. 18, 2005, Dayton. Ohio).

“A New Type of Carbon Nanotube Yarn for Artificial Muscle and Other Multifunctional Materials Applications”,NIST/NASA Workshop on Measurement Issues in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (Jan. 26-28, 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland).

“Draw-Twist-Spun Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscle and Other Multifunctional Applications”, Workshop on Nanostructured Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong (Feb. 2-3, 2005, Wollongong, Australia).

“Draw-Twist-Spun Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscle, Structural, Energy Storage, Energy Harvesting, and Field Emission Applications”, Workshop on NanoScience for Advanced Applications (Feb. 16-19, 2005, Guanajuato, Mexico).

“Draw-Twist-Spun Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscle, Structural, Energy Storage, Energy Harvesting, and Field Emission Applications”, University of Texas at Austin (Feb. 23, 2005, Austin, Texas).

"Monitoring Reactive Oxygen Species Dynamics from Human Epithelial-like Cells Exposed to Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes", National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (March, 2005)

"The Biochemistry/Nanotechnology Interface: Design of Proteins that Bind Carbon Nanotubes", Texas Wesleyan University: Department of Chemistry ( March 7, 2005, Fort Worth, Texas).

“A New Type of Carbon Nanotube Yarn for Artificial Muscle and Other Multifunctional Materials Applications”, SPIE’s International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials (March 7-10, 2005, San Diego, California).

“Draw-Twist-Spun Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscle and Other Multifunctional Applications”, XIXth Annual International Winter School Euroconference on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials (March 12-19, 2005, Kirchberg, Austria).

“Gaint Double-Layer Charge Injection Without Contacting Electrolyte: Properties Tuning and Device Applications”, Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society (March 28-April 1, 2005, San Francisco,California).

“Draw-Twist-Spun Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscle, Structural, Energy Storage, Energy Harvesting, and Field Emission Applications”, 2nd Conference on Nanoscale Devices and System Integration (April 4-6, 2005, Houston, Texas).

“Draw-Twist-Spun Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscle, Structural, Energy Storage, Energy Harvesting, and Field Emission Applications”, Lockeed Martin (April 12, 2005, Fort Worth, Texas).

“Knotty Carbon Nanotube Yarns”, U.S.-Mexico Workshop on Knots in Biological Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas (April 28, 2005, Richardson, Texas).

"Noncovalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes Using Designed Peptide Systems" The University of Texas at Arlington: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (April 29, 2005, Arlington, Texas).

“Draw-Twist-Spun Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscle, Structural, Energy Storage, Energy Harvesting, and Field Emission Applications”, First International Workshop of NANO Systems Institute (May 30-31, 2005, Seoul, Korea).

“Gaint Double-Layer Charge Injection Without Contacting Electrolyte: Properties Tuning and Device Applications”, Physics Department, Seoul National University (June 1, 2005, Seoul, Korea).

"Noncovalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes Using Designed Peptides", 79th American Chemical Society Colloid and Surface Science Symposium: session Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Bioinspired Nanomaterials", Clarkson University ( June 13, 2005, Postdam, New York).

“Artificial Muscles”, IDGA’s Nanotechnology for Defense Conference (July 26, 2005, Washington, D.C.).

“Draw-Twist-Spun Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscle, Structural, Energy Storage, Energy Harvesting, and Field Emission Applications”, Nano Summit Research Conference (July 28, 2005, Houston, Texas).

“Multifunctional carbon nanotube yarns and Textiles for fun and profit : ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE, electronic textile, energy storage and harvesting, display, electron emission, and other applications”, Deans Special Lecture, The University of Texas at Brownsville (Sept. 26, 2005, Brownsville, Texas)

"Noncovalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes Using Designed Peptides", Strategic Partnership for Research In Nanotechnology (SPRING) II Conference The University of Texas at Dallas (November 11, 2004, Richardson, Texas).

2004

"Carbon Nanotubes for Fun and Profit: Tiny Muscles,Noses, Capacitors, and Power Generators", Environmental Protection Agency (January 15, 2004, Dallas, Texas).

“Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Fibers”, IEEE/NANO-2004 (Feb. 15-19, 2004, Miami, Florida).

"The Noncovalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes with Designed Amphiphilic Peptides", University of Oklahoma: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (March 1, 2004, Norman, Oklahoma)

“Transforming Electrolyte-Free CNT Properties By Liquid-State Electrochemical Double-Layer Charge Injection”, International Winter School on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials (March 6-13, 2004, Kirchberg, Austria).

"Use of Designed Amphiphilic Peptides for the Solubilization and Self-assembly of Carbon Nanotubes Particles", 2004: session Nanotube Assembly for Devices (March 8, 2004, Orlando, Florida).

“Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Fibers”, NSF/AFRL/ARL/ONRWorkshop on the Nanotube-Reinforced Composite Materials for Multifunctional Applications, Florida State University (March 23-24, 2004, Tallahassee, Florida).

“Important Computational Challenges in Nanotechnology”, 24th Annual Meeting of the Council of Chemical Research (April 5-8, 2004, Austin, Texas).

“The Future is Small: Nanotechnology”, National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses (April 13, 2004, Dallas, Texas).

Baughman, Ray H ., “Super Tough Nanotube Composite Fibers for Artificial Muscle and Electronic Textile Applications”, Materials Research Colloquium, Harvard University (April 11, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts).

“Tough Nanotube Composite Fibers for Artificial Muscle Applications”, The Second Conference on Artificial Muscles - Biomimetic System Engineering (May 20-21, 2004, (Osaka, Japan).

“Transforming Electrolyte-Free Carbon Nanotube Properties By Liquid-State Electrochemical Double-Layer Charge Injection”, International Conference on Synthetic Metals ( June 28-July 2, 2004, Wollongong, Australia).

“Carbon Nanotubes for Super-tough Continuous Fibers, Actuation, Energy Harvesting and Storage, and Electronic Textiles”, Plenary Lecture, XIII International Materials Research Congress" (August 22-26, 2004, Cancun, Mexico).

“High Performance Carbon Nanotube Fibers – A Glimpse at the Future”, The Fibers Conference 2004 (Sept. 15-16, 2004, Greensville, South Carolina).

“Continuous Nanotube Yarns and Fibers and Their Properties for Multifunctional Applications”, NASA Grand Challenge Workshop on Nano for Space Exploration (August 24-26, 2004, NASA Ames, Moffett Field, California).

“Super Tough Carbon Nanotube Fibers for Artificial Muscle and Electronic Textile Applications”, After Dinner Speaker for American Institute for Chemical Engineers Meeting (Oct. 21, 2004, Dallas, Texas).

"Biocompatibility Studies of Human Epithelial-like Cells Exposed to Single-Walled Nanotubes",Third Annual SPRING Research Conference (November, 2004)

"In Vacuo Retention of Nanostructure Properties Switched by Liquid-State Double-Layer Charge Injection", Second Annual SPRING Meeting on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Nov. 11-13, 2004, Dallas, Texas).

“Strange, Useful, and Problematic Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotube Sheets and Fibers”, 2004 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting (Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts).

“Nanomaterial Properties Switched by Double-Layer Charge Injection and Retained in Vacuum”, 2004 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting (Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts).

“Pure Carbon Nanotube Filaments Spun by Twisting”, 2004 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting (Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts).

“A New Type of Artificial Muscle Yarn for Artificial Muscle and Other Multifunctional Materials Applications”, Second World Conference on Biomimetics, Artificial Muscles, and NanoBio (Dec. 6-8, 2004, Albuquerque, New Mexico).

“Strange, Useful, and Problematic Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotube Sheets and Fibers”, Rice University (Dec. 13, 2004, Houston, Texas).

2003

“Super Tough Nanotube Composite Fibers for Electronic Textiles”, International Workshop on Electronic Fibers and Textiles (University of Wollongong, Australia, Feb. 12-14, 2003) and International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
(Feb. 5-7, 2003, Wellington, New Zealand).

"Carbon Nanotubes Arrays and Continuous Fibers for the Harvesting, Storage, Conversion, and Absorption of Energy", NANOVENTURES 2003 (Feb. 26-28, 2003, Richardson, Texas).

“Super Tough Nanotube Composite Fibers for Electronic Textiles”, XVIth International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials (March 9-14, 2003, Kirchberg, Austria).

"Controlled Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes in Aqueous Solution with Designed Amphiphilic Helical Peptides", Texas Protein Folder's Meeting (April 13, 2003, Navasota, Texas)

“Energy Transforming Carbon Nanotube Fibers”, 2003 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting (April 21-25, 2003).

“Carbon Nanotubes for Fun and Profit: Tiny Muscles, Noses, and Power Generators”, Raymond F. Boyer Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University (April 18, 2003, Cleveland, Ohio).

"Purity and Dispersion Effects in Using Carbon Nanotubes for Super-Tough Continuous Fibers, Actuation, Energy Harvesting and Storage, and Electronic Textiles”, NIST Workshop on Nanotubes (May 27-May 29, 2003, Gaithersburg, Maryland).

“Carbon Nanotubes for Super-Tough Continuous Fibers, Actuation, Energy Harvesting and Storage, and Electronic Textiles”, Oklahoma NSF EPSCoR Annual Conference
(May 15, 2003, Stillwater, Oklahoma).

"Controlled Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes in Aqueous Solution with Designed Amphiphilic Helical Peptides", 36th Middle Atlantic Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (MARM): session Biophysical Chemistry ( June 10, 2003, Princeton, New Jersey)

“Super Tough Nanotube Composite Fibers for Artificial Muscle and Electronic Textile Applications”, 2003 Nano Summit Conference (July 31, 2003, Houston, Texas).

“Carbon Nanotube Chemi-Mechanical and Piezo-Electrochemical Sensors”, 2003 Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Sensors and Interfacial Design (August 2003, Newport, Rhode Island).

“Super Tough Nanotube Composite Fibers For Artificial Muscle and Electronic Textile Applications”, First Annual SPRING Meeting on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
(August 25-27, 2003, Austin, Texas).

“Super Tough Nanotube Composite Fibers for Artificial Muscle and Electronic Textile Applications”, 2003 Oesper Symposium (Oct. 10-11, 2003, Cincinnati, Ohio) and 2003 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting (Dec. 1-5, 2003, Boston, Massachusetts).

"Controlled Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes in Aqueous Solution with Designed Amphiphilic Peptides", 30th Federations of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies Meeting: session Current Progress in Separations of Carbon Nanotubes
(October 20, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)

"The Biology/Nanotechnology Interface: Design of Proteins that Bind Carbon Nanotubes ", DePauw University: Department of Chemistry (October 28, 2003, Greencastle, Indiana)

"Controlled Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes in Aqueous Solution with Designed Amphiphilic Peptides", Baylor University: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
(December 5, 2003, Waco, Texas).

2002

“Recent Advances for Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles”, International Workshop on Advanced Materials for Sensors and Actuators: Role of Nanotechnology (Feb. 12-14, 2002, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia) and AMRI/DARPA Symposium ( March, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana).

“Carbon Nanotube Actuators Based On Double-Layer Charge Injection: From Materials Processing to Device Physics and Performance”, SPIE's Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices ( March 17-21, 2002, San Diego, California).

“Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of Artificial Muscles Based on Charge Injection in Carbon Nanotubes”, Invited Lecture, American Physical Society March Meeting (March 18-22, 2002, Indianapolis, Indiana).

“Carbon Nanotubes for Fun and Profit: Tiny Muscles, Noses, Capacitors, and Power Generators”, Joint Symposium on Nanotechnology at the Border: Economic and Intellectual Impact of the Small World, University of Texas at Brownsville (May 3, 2002, Brownsville, Texas) and First NJU-UTD Joint Workshop on Nanoscience and Technology, Nanjing University (June 28-29, 2002, China).

“Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscles, Energy Storage and Energy Harvesting”, International Conference on Synthetic Metals (June 29 to July 5, 2002, Shanghai, China).

“Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscles, Energy Storage and Energy Harvesting”, International Interactive Textiles Conference for the Warrior System ( July 9-11, 2002, Nadick, MA) and 3M Corporation (July 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota).

“Related Photo, Thermal, and Charge Injection Driven Processes and Devices Based on Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes” NATO-ARW Meeting on Organic Nanophotonics (August 25-29, 2002, Aix en Provence, France).

“Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscles, Energy Storage and Power Generation”, Texas Systems Day Conference (Sept 28, 2002, Arlington, Texas).

“Applications Prospects for Carbon Nanotubes”, Honeywell Bendix/JURID Guest Lecture, Society of Automotive Engineers 20th Annual Brake Colloquium (Oct. 6-9, 2002, Phoenix, Arizona).

"Carbon Nanotubes for Fun and Profit: Tiny Muscles,Noses, Capacitors, and Power Generators ", University of Texas at Arlington (Oct. 11, 2002, Arlington, Texas).

“Carbon Nanotubes for Fun and Profit – Tiny Muscles, Noses, and Power Generators”, Raymond F. Boyer Lecture Series in Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western University (Oct. 25, 2002, Cleveland, Ohio).

“Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscles, Energy Storage and Power Generation”, The American Vacuum Society (Nov. 4-8, 2002, Denver, Colorado).

“Carbon Nanotube Actuators: From Fundamental Physics to Device Performance and Targeted Applications”, First World Conference on Biomimetics and Artificial Muscles
(Dec. 9-11, 2002, Albuquerque, New Mexico).

2001

“Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscles, Energy Storage, and Energy Harvesting”, 2001 Tulane Engineering Forum, Advanced Materials: Research, Development, and Applications, Tulane University (Sept. 21, 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana).

“Carbon Nanotubes for Artificial Muscles, Energy Storage, and Energy Harvesting”, Annual Symposium of the Center for Collective Phenomena in Restricted Geometries, Pennsylvania State University (Oct. 12-14, 2001, University Park, Pennsylvania).

“Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Composites for Actuation, Energy Storage, and Energy Harvesting”, Nanoscience in a Mega-City, Hunter College, City University of New York (Oct. 20, 2001, New York, New York).

“Actuation, Energy Storage, and Energy Harvesting Using Carbon Nanotubes from Rice/CNI”, Rice University (Nov. 1, 2001, Houston, Texas).

“Publication of Your Best Work in Science and Nature: Requirements, Strategies, and Dangers”, Jilin University (Nov. 11, 2001, China).

“Carbon Nanotubes for Actuation in Artificial Muscles, Energy Storage, and Energy Harvesting”, Jilin University (Nov. 11, 2001, China) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Nov. 16, 2001, Hong Kong, China).

“Artificial Muscles Based on Carbon Nanotubes”, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting"
(Nov. 26-30, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts).

“Artificial Muscles Based on Carbon Nanotubes”, The First International Conference on Artificial Muscles, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Dec. 12-14, 2001, Osaka, Japan).