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Dr. Alan MacDiarmid, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000, often began his lectures by stating that “science is people”, and at UTD’s Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, we firmly believe this; people are our most valuable asset. The membership of the Institute spans nearly a quarter century in age; from middle school children to seasoned faculty, and is made up of scientists from almost all walks of scientific discipline. Much of the fundamental science that is being

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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). The George A. Jeffrey NanoExplorers program at UT Dallas was awarded the annual Tech Titan of the Future award from the council. Dr. Ray Baughman, director of the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTechnology Institute at the University, founded the NanoExplorers program in 2002 as a way to bring in promising pre-collegiate students to conduct

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UT Dallas Researchers Spin Nanotech Breakthrough

UT Dallas nanotechnologists have invented a groundbreaking new technology for producing weavable, knittable, sewable and knottable yarns containing giant amounts of otherwise unspinnable powders. A tiny amount of host carbon nanotube web holds guest powders in the corridors of highly conducting scrolls, without altering their performance for high-tech applications such as energy storage, energy conversion and energy harvesting. With conventional technology, powders are either held together in a yarn using a polymer binder or incorporated on fiber surfaces. Both approaches

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