[UCI-Calit2] REMINDER: Tuesday Seminar on Nano- and Micro-Patterning of Carbon

Stuart Ross stuross at calit2.uci.edu
Mon Aug 8 21:17:16 PDT 2011


 

Calit2 announces another seminar in the 2011 program for Summer
Undergraduate Fellowships in Information Technology (SURF-IT).  The
seminar is open to the public.

 

"Nano- and Micro-Patterning of Carbon"

 

Dr. Marc Madou

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Henry Samueli School of Engineering

UCI

 

Tuesday, August 9, 11:45 AM

Room 3008, Calit2 Building

A light lunch will be available at 11:45; the seminar will begin at
12:00

 

ABSTRACT:  Carbon is brittle and hard; it is difficult to machine.
Polymers, however, can be machined and formed easily, by
photolithography or other means.  After heating manufactured polymer
forms to high temperature in the absence of oxygen  (a process called
pyrolysis), structures of pure carbon remain in the desired form
(allowing for shrinkage).  By modifying the conditions of design,
manufacture, and pyrolysis, this "Carbon MEMS" process can produce a
wide variety of previously unattainable carbon structures, with various
characteristics.  The potential commercial applications include carbon
wires, sensors, electrodes for micro-batteries, and microfluidic
devices.

 

SPEAKER:  Dr. Madou is Chancellor's Professor in the Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and he has courtesy appointments
in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.  He earned his Ph.D. in
semiconductor electrochemistry at Rijksuniversiteit in Ghent, Belgium ,
in 1978.  Before coming to UCI in 2002, he had appointments at SRI
International, Ohio State University, and Nanogen, along with many
invited visiting professorships.  He has served by invitation on many
conference committees and journal review boards.  His textbook
Fundamentals of Microfabrication (CRC Press) is the leading text in the
field; the third edition will be published soon.

 

The SURF-IT student working with Dr. Madou this summer is Andrew Karman,
a chemical engineering major.

 

 

 

 

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