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Physicist Receives Nanoscience Support
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MAY 17, 2004 -- Nanoscience research lead by Yoke Khin Yap, assistant professor of physics, has been selected as a project in the new Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (http://cnms.ornl.gov) that is currently under construction at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Selected nationwide through a merit-reviewed, competitive process, the User-Initiated Nanoscience Research Program consists of 42 research projects. Yap's research theme is "Controlling Nanostructures of CVD-Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes" and is the only project selected from Michigan.
This nanoscience research program will provide users with no-cost access to ORNL research capabilities and staff in order to conduct research in areas that were identified as having strong user interest as well as connections to present nanoscience research strengths at ORNL.
Yap and his graduate students are currently involved in the research of carbon nanotubes. Both single-wall and multi-wall carbon nanotubes are grown on campus by chemical vapor deposition techniques. Yap has established techniques to control the growth location, orientation and density of carbon nanotubes (http://www.phy.mtu.edu/yap/index.html). These results were reported in the Materials Research Society spring meeting held April 12-16 in San Francisco.
CNMS is among the five new nanoscale science research centers initiated by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/BESfacilities.htm) to serve researchers from universities, national laboratories and industry. The director of CNMS, Doug Lowndes, visited MTU April 28-May 1. He conducted a Physics Colloquium, and a lecture to undergraduates sponsored by the NSF nanotechnology undergraduate education project on campus. |
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