[seminar] Kolokvij FO, Dresselhaus

[hbuljan at phy.hr]

Poštovani kolege,

   iduću srijedu, 19.11. s početkom u 16.15 sati, u predavaonici
F102 na Fizičkom odsjeku, predavanje će nam održati
Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus s MIT-a. Predavanje je naslovljeno
"Why are we so excited about carbon nanostructures?".

Profesorica Dresselhaus je jedan od vodećih svjetskih znanstvenika
iz područja ugljikovih nanostruktura već dugi niz godina.
Uz to je bila jedan od vodećih ljudi u američkom znanstvenom
sustavu gdje je sudjelovala kao predsjednik niza agencija, npr.
"American Association for the Advancement of Science", "Treasurer
of the US National Academy of Sciences", predsjednik u "American
Physical Society." Trenutno je "Chair of the Governing Board of
the American Institute of Physics" itd.

Sažetak predavanja nalazi se u nastavku poruke,
Hrvoje Buljan

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KOLOKVIJ FIZIČKOG ODSJEKA
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Vrijeme:   srijeda 19. 11. 2008., 16:15 sati (točno)
Mjesto:    Fizički odsjek, Bijenička c. 32, predavaonica F102

  Why are we so excited about carbon nanostructures?

                  Mildred Dresselhaus
 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
            and Department of Physics
          Massachusetts Institute of Technology
             Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139


There is much current excitement about the interesting new physics and
unusual physical properties of carbon nanostructures, particularly carbon
nanotubes and graphene. A brief review will be given of the physical
underpinnings of carbon nanostructures that were developed over the past
60 years, starting with the electronic structure and physical properties
of graphene and graphite, and then moving to graphite intercalation
compounds which contained the first carbon nanostructures to be studied
experimentally.  Liquid carbon studies were precursors to the fullerene
family of nanostructures and vapor grown carbon fibers were precursors to
carbon nanotubes.  Particular emphasis is given to the recent developments
on the hot topic of graphene and graphene ribbons focusing on recent
advances we have made in studying edges in graphene.  Perspectives on
future research directions for carbon nanostructures are presented.


				Voditelj seminara FO
				Hrvoje Buljan, hbuljan at phy.hr

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