News and Links

News

• "Bio-inspired Super-strong Carbon Materials" Scitizen and Scitizen...read more (2 August 2007)
• "Geckos with Mussel" Nature 448 338-341 (19 July 2007)
• "Research Highlights: Film Conductor - graphene makes glass conductive" Nature (12 July 2007)
• "Self-assembly of triblock copolymers " Nature Materials Online (8 July 2007)
• "Michael McGehee '94, named Outstanding Young Investigator by the Materials Research Society" 2007 MRS Spring Meeting (7 June 2007)
• "Suspended in Orbit" Chemical Heritage Newsmagazine 25 (5 June 2007)
• "Vorbeck says it can produce graphene cheaply and abundantly" EQuad News Blog (15 May 2007)
• "Nanocomposites: Less Hype, More Hard Work on Commercial Viability" Plastics Technology (1 May 2007)
• "Sun and Silicon" Technology Review (MIT) (8 November 2006)
• "DIY repairs: self-healing mechanisms are being developed for protective coatings" European Coatings Journal (1 November 2006)
• "In Memoriam: Dudley A. Saville" In Memoriam: Dudley A. Saville (5 October 2006)
• "Speedy Self Healing" Nature Materials (7 September 2006)
• "One more BIMat publication is highlighted in Nature News and Views" Carbon sheet solutions and Moving towards a graphene world (20 July 2006)
• "BIMat publication is highlighted in Nature News and Views" Oxygen breaks into carbon world (15 June 2006)
• "Invited commentary by Rod Ruoff on nanotube mechanics and space elevator in PNAS" Time, temperature, and load. The flaws of carbon nanotubes (2 May 2006)
• "Webchat with Jefferson Fellow Ed Samulski on Nano-stuff (February 6-10, 2006)" Nanostuff - Samulski (6 February 2006)
• "From Quonset huts to ballerinas: Princeton scientists solve a nanotech mystery" AAAS EurekAlert! (23 January 2006)
• "BIMat publication is listed as:" Hot paper - Stable Aqueous Dispersions of Graphitic Nanoplates (6 January 2006)
• "The Intelligence Behind Smart Coatings" JCT CoatingsTech 3 50-55 (1 January 2006)
• "BIMat Student Research Earns First Prize Award at National Educators' Workshop" National Educators' Workshop (12 November 2005)
• "BIMat-NIA-UNC Publications are on the Highly Accessed List" Recent articles are among the most downloaded during the first half of 2005. (21 October 2005)
• "Nature's Design Workshop - Engineers Turn to Biology for Inspiration" Newsweek (26 September 2005)
• "Learning at Mother Nature's Knee" Fortune (22 August 2005)
• "Research at Princeton" News@Princeton (15 July 2005)
• "Edward Samulski named State Department Jefferson Science Fellow" U.S. Department of State and UNC Chapel Hill (1 May 2005)
• "George Schatz elected to National Academy of Sciences" NAS (1 May 2005)
• "Devir biyotaklit devri! (Biomimetics Age)" FOCUS (Turkey) (1 March 2005)
• "Exotische Materialien: Beulen und Kratzer heilen sich selbst" Spiegel Online - Wissenschaft Germany (21 February 2005)
• "Cracking future for fabric that heals its own breaks." The Guardian UK (13 May 2004)
• "Liquid Crystal Align on Two Axes" Chemical & Engineering News 82 6 (19 April 2004)
• "Commercializing Nanotechnology" Nature Biotechnology 21 1137-43 (1 October 2003)
• "Electrically Guided Assembly inBinary colloidal Suspensions" NJN Newscast video/audio WMF (16 July 2003)
• "Simple Technique Yields Complex Structures" Princeton University (10 June 2003)
• "Self-help for Ailing Structures" Materials Today (1 June 2003)
• "UNC Chemist Attempts to Improve Space Vehicles" The Herald-Sun (9 March 2003)
• "Northwestern, NASA team up through nanotechnology" Observer Online (Northwestern University) (17 October 2002)
• "Research in Space-age Materials Takes Off With Support From NASA" Princeton Weekly Bulletin (14 October 2002)
• "PU Heads Up Search for Materials That Mimic Life" Princeton Packet (27 September 2002)
• "NASA Turns to Universities for Research in Space-Age Materials" Space Daily (26 September 2002)
• "Princeton Minds Join NASA Study Team" The Trenton Times (26 September 2002)
• "Princeton to Help New Engineering Effort Based on 'Bioinspiration'" Daily Princetonian (26 September 2002)
• "UNC, Other Universities Will Help NASA Develop Space-age Materials" UNC News Services (25 September 2002)
• "Engineers Take Cues from Nature" EQuad News (Princeton University) (1 September 2002)
• "Inaugural Meeting" NJN Newscast video/audio MPEG format (1 September 2002)

Inaugural Meeting, 25 September 2002:

• NJN Newscast (video/audio, MPEG format)

URETI/BIMat Kick-Off, September 25, 2002, Princeton University

Links

NASA URETIs

• CMISE/UCLA
  POC: Dr. Chih Ming Ho 310-825-9993

• INAC/Purdue University
  POC: Ms. Jane Boone 765-494-7715

• TIIMS/Texas A&M University
  POC: Mr. Dimitris Lagoudas 979-845-9409

• BIMat/Princeton University
  POC: Prof. Ilhan A. Aksay 609-258-4393

Aerospace and Aeronautics

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

• Langley Research Center (LaRC)

• National Institute of Aerospace (NIA)

Research Institutes and Organizations

• National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)

Universities

• Northwestern University

• Princeton University

  • Ceramic Materials Laboratory

  • Electrets

• University of California, Santa Barbara

• University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill

• Universities Space Research Association

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