Pulickel Ajayan | |
|---|---|
 Ajayan in 2009 | |
| Born | 15 July 1962 |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Nanotechnology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Materials science and Nanotechnology |
| Institutions | Rice University, Houston |
| Thesis | Phase instabilities in small particles (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Laurence D. Marks[1] |
Pulickel Madhava Panicker Ajayan, known as P. M. Ajayan, is the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering at Rice University, Houston.[2] He is the founding chair of Rice University's Materials Science and NanoEngineering department and also holds joint appointments with the Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.[3] Prior to joining Rice, he was the Henry Burlage Professor of Material Sciences and Engineering and the director of the NYSTAR interconnect focus center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute until 2007.[4] Known for his pioneering work of designing and carrying out the first experiments to make nanotubes intentionally.[5]
- ^ "Laurence D. Marks" (PDF). Northwestern University.
- ^ [1] Archived 29 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "UQ Profile" (PDF). UQ. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ^ "CIE profile". Center for Integrated Electronics. 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ^ Ebbesen, T. W.; Ajayan, P. M. (1992). "Large-scale synthesis of carbon nanotubes". Nature. 358 (6383). Nature, volume 358, pages 220–222 (16 July 1992): 220–222. Bibcode:1992Natur.358..220E. doi:10.1038/358220a0. S2CID 4270290.