中国科学院爱因斯坦讲席教授计划学术报告

Einstein Professorship Program，Chinese Academy of Sciences

Topic： My 50-year Adventure with Carbon

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus

　　　　　　Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics

　　　　　　Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Time: 10:00am-11:30am, (Wed.) 29 June, 2011

Venue: Room 310, Graduate School, IMR CAS

Welcome to attend!

ABSTRACT:

There is much current interest about the exciting advances in science and the unusual physical properties of carbon nanostructures, particularly regarding carbon nanotubes and graphene. In this talk, a review will be given of the physical underpinnings of carbon nanostructures over a 50-year period.　 The review will cover developments starting with the work of Wallace in the 1940’s and my work in the 1960’s on graphite. We then move 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 in our understanding of carbon nanotubes and graphene, with perspectives on future research directions for these fields and applications that are now beginning to emerge.