ADVISORY BOARD

Professor George Grüner
Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and Founder

Dr. Grüner is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California Los Angeles. He is the founder of Unidym, pioneering research into CNT-based films and transistors. He has served as a consultant to and advisory board member for numerous companies and government agencies, including IBM, Exxon and Superconductor Technologies, Inc. From 2001 to 2004, Dr. Grüner was the Chief Technical Officer and Chief Scientist of Nanomix Inc., a role for which he received the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer Award. Dr. Grüner has published over 400 papers and 2 books and is the inventor of over 30 patents and patent applications in the field of nanotechnology. He is one of the 200 most "Highly Cited Scientists" in the field of physics worldwide. Dr. Grüner's recognitions include the Guggenheim and Alexander von Humboldt awards. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Budapest, Hungary. In 1980 he was appointed Professor of Physics at UCLA. He has directed a research group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Professor P. M. Ajayan

Professor Pulickel Ajayan is Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Rice University where he directs a multi-disciplinary team effort with the goal of developing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as functional materials. He has worked in the field from its onset and his recent contributions include tunable-pore CNT membrane filters, chip cooling with integrated CNT architectures, CNT based Gecko- tape, controlled fabrication of CNT architectures, and CNT-polymer composites. He was awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers, selected "for sustained and seminal contributions to the material sciences and applications of carbon nanotubes." He is also the winner of the MRS Medal in 2006 for his work in carbon nanotube science.

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Professor Jin Jang

Professor Jang of Kyung Hee University, Korea, is a leader in the field of display development. Among other achievements, he has developed active matrix displays on plastic substrates, and is also involved in developing low-temperature nanotube deposition processes for display applications. He is the author or co-author of over 500 technical publications. Professor Jang is the director of the TFT-LCD Research Center and Advanced Display Research Center at Kyung Hee University.

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Professor Jie Liu

Professor Liu of Duke University is involved in the production and exploration of CNTs. His research group has been working at the forefront of CNT synthesis and chemical functionalization, and has made significant contributions to the synthesis of various nanotube forms using chemical vapor deposition methods. He has over 70 papers published in nanotechnology and carbon nanotubes.

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Professor Mike McGehee

Professor McGehee of Stanford University is an internationally recognized expert on new materials for energy-saving applications. His current focus is on new generation solar cells. This year Professor McGehee has been selected as the Young Investigator of the Year by the Materials Research Society for work on printable solar cells (2007).

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Professor John Rogers

John Rogers is the Founder Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the world's leading expert on flexible macroelectronics. He has pioneered the fabrication of novel CNT architectures and high performance electronic devices. He is the recipient of American Chemical Society Award for Team Innovation (2002).

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