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Dr. James Tour, Chao Professor of Chemistry at Rice University's Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, and Director, Rice University Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory, 5/10/06
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2006-05-11 12:30:00
Description: Nanotechnology, nanocars, molecular manufacturing, carbon nanotubes, semiconductors. Dr. James Tour is a synthetic organic chemist. His research comprises three main areas -- molecular computing, bottom-up molecular nanofabrication, and carbon nanotube growth and modifications for composites. Dr. Tour holds 20 U.S. patents and has published more than 270 research papers. Dr. Tour's first paper on single-molecule nanocars, published October 2005 in the journal, Nano Letters, was the most-accessed article from any American Chemical Society journal for all of 2005.
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