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| Dr. James Tour Rice University |
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| Recorded: 5/10/06 | |
| Dr. James Tour is the Chao Professor of Chemistry at Rice University’s Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology. Dr. Tour is the director of Rice’s Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory, and he holds appointments in Rice’s departments of chemistry, computer science, and mechanical engineering and materials science. Dr. Tour is a synthetic organic chemist. His research comprises three main areas: molecular computing, bottom-up molecular nanofabrication, and carbon nanotube growth and modifications for composites. Dr. Tour holds 20 U.S. patents and has published more than 270 research papers. Dr. Tour’s first paper on single-molecule nanocars, published October 2005 in the journal, Nano Letters, was the most-accessed article from any American Chemical Society journal for all of 2005. |
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