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Pulickel Ajayan
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Pulickel Madhavapanicker Ajayan, known as P. M. Ajayan, is the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering at Rice University.[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]
Pulickel Ajayan | |
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![]() Ajayan in 2009 | |
Born | (1962-07-15) 15 July 1962 (age 62) |
Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi Northwestern University |
Known for | Nanotechnology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Materials science and Nanotechnology |
Institutions | Rice University |
Thesis | Phase instabilities in small particles (1989) |
Doctoral advisor | Laurence D. Marks[1] |