Recent Press
For more recent press see “News” posts.
Molecular Machines
Nanocars get into top gear
26 September 2006
22 September 2006
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11 May 2006
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blog/science/2629151.html
13 April 2006
In follow-on work to last year’s groundbreaking invention of the world’s first single-molecule car, chemists at Rice University have produced the first motorized version of their tiny nanocar.
The research is published in the April 13 issue of the journal Organic Letters.
http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=8448
25 April 2006
“Last year scientists at Rice University created a single molecule that looked like a car.”
“This year Jim Tour’s research group has gone significantly further. They have created a tiny nano-car that can motor along . You want nano-machines? You got it.”
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/04/the_versatile_j_1.html��
“Rice University scientists have constructed the world’s smallest car — a single molecule “nanocar” that contains a chassis, axles and four buckyball wheels. The “nanocar” is described in a research paper that is available online and due to appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Nano Letters.”
http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=7850
20 October 2005
World’s first molecular car zips about on fullerene wheels
“Automakers aren’t losing any sleep over a car recently unveiled by Rice University researchers. Forget about rich Corinthian leather. This new coupe doesn’t have any seating or steering. On the upside, though, with a wheelbase less than 5 nm, parking it is unlikely to be a problem.”
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i43/8343nanocar.html20 October 2005
Molecular Electronics
“NVRAM with Disordered Arrays (Smaller/Cheaper)” on Slashdot 10 November 2003:
http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/11/10/1151245.shtml
“Improving non-volatile memory” on e4engineering.com.
20 October 2003
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Times “Logic and Memory Shown on Molecular Scale”
by R. Colin Johnson, 31 Oct. 2003.
New
York Times Article “Electronic
Memory Research That Dwarfs the Silicon Chip” 20 October 2003.
“Researchers Could Deliver Fast, Cheap, Nanoelectronics Sooner Than Almost Anyone had Predicted” by Alan Leo, Technology Review, June 2002, p.60.
“Taming
High-Tech Particles” Science News, 2002 (161) March 30, page
200. By Jessica Gorman
“Researchers
Close to Delivering Molecular Circuits”, by Chappell
Brown, EETimes, 19 February 2002
Houston
Technology Center Ad in The Houston
Chronicle, Friday, 7 December, 2001
Molecular Electronics
Named “Breakthrough
of the Year 2001″ by Science Magazine
Houston Chronicle
wire services–”Itsy-bitsy Chip may shrink size, price of computers”
(19 July 2001)
Chemical & Engineering
News (June 25, 2001) “The Ol’ Switcheroo Comes in a New Size”
by Mitch Jacoby
Science News, Vol.
159, No. 25, June 23, 2001, p. 390.
TRN
News–”Molecular mechanism makes minute memory” (15 August
2001)
& Engineering News (Oct. 16, 2000)
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Aug. 24, 2000)
Dallas
Morning News (Oct. 30, 2000)
Wired (July 2000)
MIT Technology Review (May 2000)
Houston Chronicle (Aug. 15, 2000)
Christian Science Monitor (Apr. 13, 2000)
“The Birth of Molecular Electronics” Scientific American
(June 2000) by James Tour and Mark Reed
Chemical & Engineering News (Jan 3, 2000)
US News & World Report (May 1, 2000)
New York Times (March 23, 2000)
Dallas Morning News (Jan. 2, 2000)
Houston Chronicle (Nov. 5, 1999)
Chemical & Engineering News (Nov. 22, 1999)
New York Times (Nov. 1, 1999)
Carbon
Nanotubes
Solvent-Free Functionalization
of Carbon Nanotubes–”Stir, Heat–But No Need to Dissolve”
Chemical
& Engineering News, 3 February 2003, p 5.
SCIENCE: CARBON NANOTUBES
Researchers at Rice University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
discovered a method to chemically select and separate carbon nanotubes based
on their electronic structure. The new process represents a shift in the
way scientists think about the chemistry of carbon nanotubes.
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NanoKids�ѢEducational
Outreach Project
“Scientist
has nanoclan fit for a king” by Candace Stuart, smalltimes,
May/June 2002, p. 7.
“NanoKids
Made in Lab” by Helen R. Pilcher, Nature Science
Update, 14 October 2003
Counter-terrorism
DEADLY NERVE
GAS IS A PHONE CALL AWAY
New York Post; New York; Nov 15, 2001; KENNETH LOVETT Post Correspondent;
Abstract (must pay for article at http://www.nypost.com):
ALBANY – For $130, almost anyone can order the chemicals needed to develop
deadly nerve gasses, a prominent chemist warns. After a Defense Department
analyst tried to downplay the problem to him last year, James Tour said
he was able to order enough chemicals to make nearly 300 grams of sarin
- the nerve gas used in attacks on Japan’s subway system in …
“Better
Killing Through Chemistry”
Scientific American,
December 2001
Interview
on NBC’s Today Show by Katie Couric, 5 November, 2001.
“Nerve
gas chemicals readily available” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 November
2001
Dallas
Morning News, November 2001
” Do it Yourself Chemical Weapons” Chemical
& Engineering News (July 10, 2000, pp 42-45) by James M. Tour
Other
Areas of Interest
The Dallas Morning
News “Gifts of wonder: Scientists reflect on things that sparked
their quest for knowledge” 24 December 2001