Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) offer significant advantages over many existing materials due to their exceptional mechanical, electronic and chemical properties. While unprecedented interest in a variety of possible commercial applications has accelerated research and development, a key obstacle to commercialization remains the need for cost-effective, large-scale production methods.

These are precisely the issues this forum is designed to address - recent technological advances in new production and processing techniques. Among other featured presenters, Applied Sciences, Carbon Solutions and General Motors will highlight their efforts for the scale-up of production. Cutting edge applications of nanotubes in fuel cell technology, lithium ion batteries, hydrogen storage, field-emitter displays, reinforced composites and molecular electronic interconnects will also be presented.

Panel Discussion: What is holding up large-scale production and transition to applications of carbon nanotubes?

PROGRAM FEATURES

Processing & Scale-Up
• Carbon Arc & Laser Vaporization
• Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)
• Gas-Phase Production by CO Disproportionation

Applications
• Electrochemical and Gas Phase Hydrogen Storage
• Nanotube Composite Materials
• Supercapacitors
• Lithium Ion Batteries
• Field Emission Displays
• Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells
• Nanoelectronics
• AFM Tips
• Nanotube Actuators

PLUS -- Special poster session!
Commercial and academic scientists are encouraged to submit titles and abstracts to be included in a special poster session. Selected presenters will have the opportunity to briefly describe their work and posters will be on display throughout the conference. Please submit one-page abstracts and titles no later than March 10, 2000 for inclusion in conference documentation.

Note: If you are submitting a poster, you must be registered and paid in advance to ensure that a posterboard is reserved for you. Please use registration form.

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2000

8:00 Registration, Poster Set-Up, Coffee and Danish

Advances in Production and Processing

9:00 Conference Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Deepak Srivastava

9:10 Vapor Grown Nanofibers as a Commercial Product
Robert L. Alig

9:45 Synthesis, Purification, Handling and Characterization of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes: Some Recent Developments within the Framework of European Activities
Patrick Bernier

10:20 Gas-Phase Production of Single-Wall Nanotubes by CO Disproportionation
Pavel Nikolaev

10:55 Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

11:15 Chemistry of Carbon Nanotubes
Robert C Haddon

11:50 Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites
L. P. Felipe Chibante

12:25 Special Poster Presentation Session and Lunch

Applications: Fuel Cells, Energy and Hydrogen Storage

2:00 Session Chairperson’s Remarks
Patrick Bernier

2:05 Exploring the Potential for Large-Scale Applications of Carbon Nanotubes
Charles Olk

2:40 Application of Carbon Nanotubes in Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells
Zafar Iqbal

3:15 Carbon Nanotubes and Nanofibers for Applications to Li Ion Battery and Other Electric Energy Storage Devices
Morinobu Endo

3:50 Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

4:10 Carbon Nanostructures for Electrochemical and Gas Phase Hydrogen Storage, Supercaps and as Electron Emitters
Louis Schlapbach

4:45 Simulations of Plasticity and Hydrogen Storage in C and BN Nanotubes
Deepak Srivastava

5:20 Cocktail Reception / Cash Bar

6:00 End of Day One

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2000

8:30 Poster Viewing, Coffee and Danish

9:00 Conference Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Deepak Srivastava

Applications: NEMS, Molecular Electronics, NanoComposites

9:10 Session Chairperson’s remarks
Zafar Iqbal

9:15 Nanotube Based Electronics
Siegmar Roth

9:50 Carbon Nanotube Based Field Emission Display
Wonbong Choi

10:25 Electrochemical and Field Emission Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
Otto Zhou

11:00 Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

11:20 Adapting Carbon Nanotube Production Strategies for Nanotechnological Applications
Alan M. Cassell

11:55 The Science and Early Technology of Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles
Ray H. Baughman

12:30 Poster Viewing and Lunch on Your Own

2:00 Behavior of Nanotube Devices under Normal and Extreme Conditions
David Tomanek

2:35 Augmenting Thermal Conductivity Using Fullerenes and Nanotubes
Enrique V. Barrera

3:10 Uniform Carbon Nanotube Arrays Created in Anodic Oxide Templates
Martin Moskovits

3:45 Defects in Carbon Nanotubes
Jean-Christophe Charlie

4:20 Panel Discussion -- What is holding up large-scale production and transition to applications?
Moderator: David Tomanek

5:00 End of Conference

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