News and Links

Inaugural Meeting, 25 September 2002:

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

News

• "Princeton University Supports Ultracapacitor Research" Princeton University website (2 February 2012)
• "Vorbeck Materials Nominated for Energy Innovator by the Department of Energy" Princeton University-EQN blog website (27 January 2012)
• "Exploiting the Carbon Flatland" www.nature.com (21 December 2011)
• "Printable Sensors Highlighted" Princeton University-SEAS website (21 December 2011)
• "Graphene moves toward Applications" cen.acs.org (21 November 2011)
• "TiO₂-Graphene Particles cited as Miniscule Particles with Massive Potentials" What's Hot in Chemistry (27 September 2011)
• "The Super-Material Giving New Energy to Electric Cars" Future (20 September 2011)
• "Retail Ready: Graphene is beginning to Revolutionise the Market for Plastic Electronics" Plastic Electronics (3 August 2011)
• "ACS Nano Podcast is "All About Graphene"" ACS Nano (2 August 2011)
• "Two Articles are among the Top 20 Most Cited Articles for the Past Three Years" pubs.acs.org (1 June 2011)
• "Article on electrocatalysts for fuel cells has entered the top 10 "most read" list for Q1 2011 for Chemistry of Materials" Chemistry of Materials (23 May 2011)
• "Metal Oxide and Graphene Nanocomposites for Improved Electric Energy Storage" pubs.acs.org (9 March 2011)
• "A paperweight for platinum" www.pnl.gov (8 February 2011)
• "First Graphene Composite Anode in Production" www.targray.com (24 January 2011)
• "Aksay Elected to the Turkish Academy of Sciences" www.tuba.gov (7 December 2010)
• "Vorbeck Materials wins 2010 World Technology Award" www.wtn.net (1 December 2010)
• "Vorbeck Materials cited in Wall Street Journal" Wall Street Journal (7 October 2010)
• "Review article on graphene-based sensors the "most accessed" article for July 2010" Electroanalysis (12 August 2010)
• "Vorbeck Materials Corporation and Princeton University cited in report on economic growth" www.sciencecoalition.org (28 July 2010)
• "Vorbeck Materials Receives a Top Innovator Award by the New York Venture Summit" BusinessWire (17 June 2010)
• "Graphene-DNA biosensor selective, simple to create" Small (2 June 2010)
• "Partnership Award with Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan" Partner University Fund (15 April 2010)
• "Aksay Elected to National Academy of Engineering" National Academies (17 February 2010)
• "Article on graphene as a fuel additive highlighted by Nature Nanotechnology" Nature Nanotechnology (21 January 2010)
• "Graphene Innovator Vorbeck Materials receives LoREX approval from EPA" BusinessWire (17 December 2009)
• "Article on graphene-based companies for enhanced Li-ion insertion has entered the top 20 "most downloaded" list for ACS Nano" ACS Nano (10 December 2009)
• "McAllister et al. (2007) article on graphene is the most-cited article in Chemistry of Materials" Chemistry of Materials (21 October 2009)
• "Graphene article by McAllister et al. (2007) has entered the Chemistry of Materials most read list" Chemistry of Materials (13 October 2009)
• "Stimulus grants top $31 million" Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW) (9 October 2009)
• "Commercialization of Graphene" www.nature.com (1 October 2009)
• "Recovery Act Awards" Princeton University Website (18 September 2009)
• "Joint publications with PNNL is the top "hottest article" " ScienceDirect (11 September 2009)
• "Vorbeck Materials makes inroads in graphene technology" Printed Electronics Now (13 August 2009)
• "The Journal of Physical Chemistry B's Most Read Articles" J. Phys. Chem. B (11 August 2009)
• "Bringing graphene to market" Technology Review (6 August 2009)
• "Polymer scientist says creativity is key" www.livescience.com (29 July 2009)
• "Super tiny technology could power superfast airplanes" Princeton University Website (17 July 2009)
• "Alum's startup company bets on Princeton research" Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW) (10 June 2009)
• "Princeton researchers to lead major Pentagon-funded initiatives" Princeton University Website (28 May 2009)
• "Graphene: Carbon As Thin As Can Be" Chemical and Engineering News (2 March 2009)
• "BASF and Vorbeck Link for Graphene" Chemical and Engineering News (22 December 2008)
• "Research Highlights -- Graphene: Let's not stick together" Nature Nanotechnology (18 June 2008)
• "By Adding Graphene, Researchers Create Superior Polymer" Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering News (16 June 2008)
• "Nanoprinting" NJN Newscast (8 February 2008)
• "Fine print: New techniques allows fast printing of microscopic electronics" Princeton University (24 January 2008)
• "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)
• "Inaugural Meeting" NJN Newscast (25 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)

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)

• National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)

• Northwestern University
• Princeton University
  • Ceramic Materials Laboratory
  • Electrets
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill
• Universities Space Research Association