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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Rice University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science,Houston, TX
Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering (From 08/2007)
University Karlsruhe/ Institute of Nanotechnology Karlsruhe, Germany
Helmoltz-Humboldt Senior Awardee (several periods during 2008-2009)
TsinghuaUniversity, Beijing, China
Guest Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (2008-2009)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Troy, NY
Henry Burlage Chair Professor in Engineering (September 2004 - 2007)
Director, RPI Interconnect Focus Center New York (September 2004 - 2008)
Professor with tenure (May 2001)
Associate Professor with tenure (December 99 – May 2001)
Assistant Professor, tenure track (January 97 – December 99)
ISIS, Universite Louis Pasteaur, Strasbourg, France
Visiting Professor; Sabbatical Leave (March 2003 – August 2003)
Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (August 95 – December 96)
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
Researcher au CNRS (May 93 – July 95)
Fundamental Research Laboratory, NEC Corporation, Tsukuba, Japan
Post-doctoral Researcher (April 90 – May 93)
RECOGNITION
Helmoltz-Humboldt Senior Award (2008)
Elected as Foreign Associate to the Mexican Academy of Sciences (2008)
Elected Honarary Memmber of Materials Research Society of India (2008)
Selected Nano50TM Innovator by Nanotech Briefs (2007)
Selected by Scientific American Magazine as one of 2006 Scientific American 50: citation “Research Leader in the Material Progress category because of work over the past year creating super-resilient springs from carbon nanotubes that could one day be suitable for artificial joints”
MRS Medal (2006): Citation “for important developments in the material science and applications of carbon nanotubes”
Total of ~270 Peer Reviewed Publications with ~15,000 citations (h factor ~ 59)
Guinness Book of World Records (2008): Darkest Material in the World (co-inventor)
Guinness Book of World Records (2006): Smallest Brush in the World (co-inventor)
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Department of Metallurgy, Banaras Hindu University (2005)
Distinguished Professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China (2005)
Kerala Center Award (2005)
RPI School of Engineering Research Award, 2003
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1998
Burton Award, Microscopy Society of America, 1997
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, 1995
Presidential Student Award, Electron Microscopy Society of America, 1989
Hadfield Medal for Outstanding Metallurgist, Calcutta (India), 1985
Bachelor of Technology Gold Medal, Banaras Hindu University (India), 1985
Advisory Board Member, Petroleum Research Fund, ACS, 2003-2006)
Advisory Editorial Board Member of Advanced Materials
Editorial Board Member of Carbon
Advisory Editorial Board Member of Journal of Experimental Nanoscience
Advisory Editorial Board Member of Small (VCH-Wiley Journal of Nanotechnology)
Advisory Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Nanomedicine
Advisory Editorial Board Member of Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Advisory Editorial Board of TIP Revista Especialzada en Ciencias Quimico-Biologicas
Advisory Editorial Board Member of Zeitschrift für Metallkunde
Scientific Advisory Board The Nanotech Company LLC
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Carbon Based Materials (Carbon Nanofibers, Fullerenes and Nanotubes, Nanodiamond)
Nanostructured Materials (Nanoparticles, Self-assembled Nano-architectures)
Hybrid Nanocomposite Materials
Nanoscale Electrical Interconnects and Devices
Nanomaterials Enabled Energy Storage Systems, Nanomaterials in Energy
Electron Microscopy & Electron Spectroscopy
Sensors, Electromechanical Actuators
Nanoscale Materials of Natural and Biological Origin
SELECT RECENT TEN PUBLICATIONS
1. L. Ci, Z. Xu, L. Wang, W. Gao, F. Ding, K. F. Kelly, B. I. Yackobson and P. M. Ajayan, "Controlled Nanocutting of Graphene" Nano Research, 1, 116 (2008)
2. A. Kumar, P. K. Vemula, P. M. Ajayan and G. John, "Silver-nanoparticle-embedded antimicrobial paints based on vegetable oil" Nature Materials, 7, 3 (2008).
3. Z. Yang, L. Ci, J. A. Bur, S. Y. Lin and P. M. Ajayan, "Experimental Observation of an extremely dark material made by a low-density nanotube array" Nano Letters, 8, 446 (2008).
4. M. Endo, M. S. Strano and P. M. Ajayan, "Potential applications of carbon nanotubes" Carbon nanotubes, Topics in Applied Physics, 111, 13-61 (2008).
5. F. S. Ou, M. M. Shaijumon and P. M. Ajayan, Controlled manipulation of giant hybrid in-organic assemblies" Nano Lett. (2008).
6. V. L. Pushparaj, M. M. Shaijumon, A. Kumar, S. Murugesan, L. Ci, R. Vajtai, R. J. Linhardt, O. Nalamasu, and P. M. Ajayan, “Flexible energy storage devices based on nanocomposite paper“, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 104, 13574 (2007).
7. J. Suhr, P. Victor, L. Ci, S. Sreekala, X. Zhang, O. Nalamasu, and P. M. Ajayan, “Fatigue resistance of aligned carbon nanotube arrays under cyclic compression”, Nature Nanotechnology, 2, 417 (2007).
8. P. M. Ajayan and J. Tour, “Nanotube composites”, Nature, 447, 1066 (2007).
9. L. Ge, S. Sethi, L. Ci, P. M. Ajayan and A. Dhinojwala, “Carbon nanotube-based synthetic gecko-tapes”, Proc. Nat. Acad. of Sci., 104, 10792 (2007).
10. L. Sun, F. Banhart, A. V. Kraseninnikov, J. A. Rodriguez-Manzo, M. Terrones and P. M. Ajayan, “Carbon Nanotubes as High Pressure Cylinders and Nanoextruders”, Science, 312, 1199 (2006).
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