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CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES, NANO-COMPOSITES, STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONS
IN LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS, ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Professor Ajayan received his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering
from Northwestern University in 1989. After three years of post-doctoral
experience at NEC Corporation in Japan, he spent two years as a research
scientist at the CNRS laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay in
France and about a year and a half as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow
at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, Stuttgart in Germany.
Professor Ajayan's research interests are mainly focused on the synthesis
of nanostructures, the study of their structure and properties in relation
to size and confinement. He is one of the pioneers in the field of carbon
nanotubes and has demonstrated several possibilities for using these
quasi-one-dimensional structures as templates and molds for fabricating
nanowires, composites, and novel ceramic fibers. Major goals of his
research include producing macro-assemblies made of nanostructures for
applications, understanding growth mechanisms of nanostructures and
designing new structures and multifunctional nanocomposites. Other research
interests are phase stability in metal clusters, the graphite-diamond
phase transition and growth of nanostructures under electron irradiation.
He has expertise in different electron microscopy techniques.
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