Weijie Lu

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/RXAN, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USA; email weijie.lu.ctr@wpafb.af.mil.

Lu is a visiting scientist and on-site consultant at AFRL. He received his PhD degree in materials engineering and his MS degree in chemical engineering from Brown University, an MS degree in physics from the University of Memphis, an MS degree in catalysis from China University of Science and Technology, and a BS degree in chemical engineering from the Zhejiang Institute of Technology, China. He was an associate professor of chemistry and physics at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn. and received two teaching awards. His research program is in the areas of fundamental issues in growth and characterization of low-dimensional carbon nanomaterials, surface and interface science, composite fabrication, and science education. He has 70 publications and 100 presentations, including patents, book chapters, and invited reviews.

Patrick Soukiassian

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay and CEA/Saclay (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives), France; email patrick.soukiassian@cea.fr.

Soukiassian is a professor in exceptional class at the Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, and a scientist at CEA/Saclay (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives), France. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London. He received his PhD degree in physics at the Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, and a PhD degree in electron optics at the Université de Reims. He serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (Institute of Physics, London) and as a managing editor of Surface Review and Letters (World Scientific, Singapore). Soukiassian is the 2007 Laureate of the Semiconductor Surfaces, Interfaces and Nanostructures Prize and the 2010 Laureate of the French Académie des Sciences “France-Taiwan Science Foundation” Prize. His areas of interest include nanoscience and nanotechnology, in particular the atomic structure, electronic properties, and nanochemistry of advanced-semiconductor surfaces, interfaces, and nano-objects, especially those of silicon carbide and graphene.

John Boeckl

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Nanoelectronic Materials Branch, Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7707, USA; tel. 937-255-9906; and email john.boeckl@wpafb.af.mil.

Boeckl is a research scientist in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. He has a BS degree from Cleveland State University and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University. Boeckl is a lead researcher of low-dimensional carbon material growth on SiC. In addition to managing this growth effort, Boeckl is also well versed in various characterization tools that are used to evaluate the resulting material both electronically and structurally.

Abdelmadjid Anane

Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, 91767 Palaiseau and Université Paris Sud, 91405, Orsay, France; email abdelmadjid.anane@thalesgroup.com.

Anane is an associate professor at the Université Paris-Sud in Orsay. He completed his PhD degree at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI) on the magnetic and magneto-transport properties of manganites under the supervision of J.-P. Renard. It was followed by post-doctoral studies at Florida State University under the supervision of S. von Molnàr before joining the Unité Mixte de physique CNRS/Thales. He has expertise on spin dependent transport, pulsed laser deposition, including magnetic oxides, and diluted magnetic semiconductors and nanofabrication.

Parambath Anilkumar

Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA; tel. 864-656-2585; and email p.anilkumar@live.in.

Anilkumar was a postdoctoral scientist at Clemson University. He received his PhD degree in 2010 under the supervision of Professor M. Jayakannan at the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India, developing supramolecular templates for fine tuning conducting polymer nanostructures. Following his graduate studies, he moved to the laboratory of Professor Ya-Ping Sun at Clemson University, studying the chemistry of carbon nanostructures.

David J. Arthur

SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc., Norman, OK 73071, USA; tel. 405-217-8388; and email darthur@swentnano.com.

Arthur is the CEO of SouthWest NanoTechnologies. He holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University, a MS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Connecticut, and a MBA degree from Northeastern University. He has 30 years of experience commercializing products utilizing advanced materials, including work at Rogers Corporation, A.T. Cross Company, TPI Composites, Helix Technologies, and Eikos. In 2005, Arthur co-founded Chasm Technologies, a consulting firm that helps its clients commercialize new products through smart application of materials science and process technology.

Phaedon Avouris

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA; email avouris@us.ibm.com.

Avouris received his undergraduate degree from the Aristotle University in Greece and his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Michigan State University. After postdoctoral work at UCLA and AT&T Bell Labs, he joined the IBM Research Division in 1978. He is currently an IBM Fellow and manager of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Avouris has published over 500 papers in the areas of atomic-scale physics and chemistry of surfaces, and the electrical, optical, and optoelectronic properties and devices of carbon nanotubes and graphene. He is the recipient of many awards and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics of the UK, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Materials Research Society, the New York Academy of Science, and the American Vacuum Society.

Norman C. Bartelt

Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA; tel. 925-294-3061; and email bartelt@sandia.gov.

Bartelt joined Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., in 1995 and became a distinguished member of the technical staff in 2001. He received his PhD degree in physics from the University of Maryland. His research interests include the theory of surface dynamics and the statistical mechanics of surfaces. His recent work has focused on interpreting real-time observations of surface dynamics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received the MRS Medal Award in 2001. He has been on the editorial boards of Physical Review Letters and Surface Science.

Claire Berger

French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Institut Néel, Grenoble, and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; email claire.berger@physics.gatech.edu.

Berger received her PhD degree in physics from the University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. She started her career with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Institut Néel, Grenoble, where her main interest was electronic properties of quasicrystals. She is now also with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, where she works on graphene, with a main emphasis on the production and electronic transport properties of epitaxial graphene on SiC.

Stephane Albon Boubanga Tombet

Los Alamos National Labs, New Mexico, 87106, USA; tel. 505-435-2059; and email stephaneb@lanl.gov.

Boubanga Tombet works as a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico, USA. He received MS and PhD degrees in condensed matter physics from Montpellier 2 University in France in 2005 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2009, he worked for Montpellier 2 University as a teacher and research assistant. He then joined the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, as a postdoctoral researcher granted by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for a one-year fellowship. His current research interests include terahertz electronic and photonic materials/devices and their applications. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 articles published in peer-reviewed journals.

Li Cao

Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA; tel. 864-656-4368; and email lcao@clemson.edu.

Cao is a postdoctoral scientist at Clemson University. He earned his PhD degree in condensed matter physics at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. Since 2006, he has been a postdoctoral scientist in Professor Ya-Ping Sun’s group at Clemson focusing on nanotechnology research. His general research interest is in the field of optical, electronic, and thermal properties of nanostructured materials and their various applications.

Wei Chen

National University of Singapore; email phycw@nus.edu.sg.

Chen received his PhD degree in chemistry from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2004 and completed his postdoctoral research in physics at NUS from 2004–2008. He has been an assistant professor in both the chemistry and physics departments at NUS since 2009. His current research interests include atomic-scale investigation of the interface problems for molecular, organic, and graphene electronics, and interface-controlled nanocatalysis for energy and environmental research.

Camilla Coletti

Center for Nanotechnology Innovation, National Enterprise for NanoScience and NanoTechnology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San Silvestro 12, I-56127 Pisa, IT; tel. +39-050-50-9874; and email camilla.coletti@iit.it.

Coletti is a senior postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Nanotechnology Innovation at the National Enterprise for NanoScience and NanoTechnology in Pisa, Italy. She received her MS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Perugia in 2004 and her PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida in 2007. She was then a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research of Stuttgart, Germany. Her current research interests include growth, characterization, and tailoring of graphene for applications that range from energy storage to biomedicine.

Edward H. Conrad

School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; tel. 404-894-9086; and email Edward.conrad@physics.gatech.edu.

Conrad is a professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an experimental physicist focused on surface and 2D condensed matter. His work spans numerous problems in 2D phase transition and is currently focused on graphene physics. Conrad is a founding member of the GT NSF MRSEC Center for New Electronic Materials, where he focuses on the structural and electronic properties of epitaxial graphene grown on SiC. He has published more than 21 articles on this subject, including an extensive review on epitaxial graphene.

Megan Creighton

School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA; tel. 401-863-3991; and email Megan_Creighton@brown.edu.

Creighton is a research assistant at Brown University and is currently pursuing a PhD degree in engineering. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2010 as the recipient of the Industry Scholarship (previously known as the Tyco Scholarship), with a major in chemical engineering and Spanish. Her research interests include understanding the impact of graphene on human health and the environment, with a focus on the adsorptive interface.

Liming Dai

Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; email liming.dai@case.edu.

Dai is the Kent Hale Smith Professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). He is also director of the Center of Advanced Science and Engineering for Carbon (CASE4Carbon). Before joining CWRU, he was an associate professor of polymer engineering at the University of Akron and the Wright Brothers Institute Endowed Chair Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Dayton. Dai’s expertise lies across the synthesis, chemical modification, and device fabrication of conjugated polymers and carbon nanomaterials for energy-related and biomedical applications.

Walt A. de Heer

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; email walter.deheer@physics.gatech.edu.

De Heer received his PhD degree in physics from UC-Berkeley in 1985 and continued at Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow before joining the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1996, he moved to Georgia Tech, where he is now a Regent’s Professor of Physics. De Heer is a Fellow of the APS, recognized for his seminal work in metal clusters and nanotubes. In 2010, he received the MRS Medal Award for his pioneering work on epitaxial graphene.

B. Dlubak

Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge, UK; email Bruno.dlubak@eng.cam.ac.uk.

Dlubak completed his PhD degree at the University of Paris Sud in Orsay, France, on spin transport in epitaxial graphene on SiC in 2011 within the joint industrial/academic unit Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales. He is now a research associate at the Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronics at the University of Cambridge, UK, in Professor John Robertson’s group. His research focuses on applications of large-scale graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition.

Rui Dong

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; email rui.dong@physics.gatech.edu.

Dong received his PhD degree in materials science and engineering, from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a postdoctoral researcher with the University of California at Los Angeles, and Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology. He has been working in the fields of semiconductor materials, devices and physics. In 2010, he moved to the epitaxial graphene laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research efforts are focused on graphene production, integration, and transistors.

Dan Du

Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, PR China; email dudan@mail.ccnu.edu.cn.

Du has worked at the Central China Normal University since 2005, and she was promoted to full professor in 2011. She received her PhD degree from Nanjing University in 2005 and joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in 2009. Her research activities include developing nanomaterials based biosensors and immunosensors for bioassay and synthesizing functional materials for environmental and biomedical applications. She has about 100 publications with a total citation number over 1400 and an H-index of 25.

Charles R. Eddy, Jr.

Electronics Science and Technology Division, Power Electronic Materials Section Code 6882, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA; email chip.eddy@nrl.navy.mil.

Eddy is a materials engineer and head of the Power Electronic Materials Section at the US Naval Research Laboratory. He received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Boston University in 1988 and 1990, respectively, and his PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1998. His research interests include growth and processing of electronic materials, especially wide bandgap semiconductors, high-κ dielectrics, and graphene. He is a senior member of IEEE, holds six patents, and has published as author or co-author over 200 archival papers.

Konstantin Emtsev

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany; email k.emtsev@fkf.mpg.de.

Emtsev is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. He earned his BS and MS degrees in physics from the St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University in Russia. He then completed his PhD degree in physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests include physics and material science aspects of graphene, physics of surfaces and interfaces, and semiconductor thin films.

Albert Fert

Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, 91767 Palaiseau and Université Paris Sud, 91405, Orsay, France; email albert.fert@thalesgroup.com.

Fert graduated from École Normale Supérieure in Paris and earned his PhD degree at the University of Paris in 1970. He has been a professor at the University Paris-Sud since 1976. He is the scientific director of a joint laboratory of CNRS and Thales. His experimental (and theoretical) research is in condensed matter physics. He made the co-discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) in 1988, which is well known for its application to hard discs. Fert and his team have made contributions to the development of spintronics—the research field kicked off by the discovery of GMR. Fert and Peter Grünberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Stiven Forti

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany; email s.forti@fkf.mpg.de.

Forti is currently a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (Germany), where he is involved in the growth and characterization of epitaxial graphene on SiC. He earned his MSc degree at the University of Trento (Italy) in 2008. His main research interests cover the surface analysis of solid-state materials as well as their functionalization via physical and chemical methods and the modification of the interface of 2D and layered materials.

Hirokazu Fukidome

Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan; tel. +81-22-217-5484; and email fukidome@riec.tohoku.ac.jp.

Fukidome has worked since 2008 at Tohoku University as an assistant professor and currently as an associate professor at RIEC, Tohoku University. He received his PhD degree from Osaka University, Japan. He started his service at Bell Labs, then went to RIKEN in Japan as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include nanofabrication and device applications of semiconductors, including graphene, the operando analysis of nanodevices, and surface electrochemistry.

Nelson Garces

Electronics Science and Technology Division, Advanced SiC Epitaxial Research Laboratory, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA; tel. 202-404-4450; and email nelson.garces@nrl.navy.mil.

Garces is a research scientist at Sotera Defense Solutions working at the US Naval Research Laboratory. He received his PhD degree in physics from West Virginia University (2000) and performed postdoctoral research at WVU and through a National Research Council Fellowship at NRL. He has worked in the study and characterization of defects in oxides and semiconductors using optical and magnetic resonance techniques. His current research focuses on graphene characterization and atomic layer deposition of gate oxides for device applications.

D. Kurt Gaskill

Advanced SiC Epitaxial Research Laboratory, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA; tel. 202-767-3098; and email gaskill@nrl.navy.mil.

Gaskill is a senior scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory. He received his PhD degree in experimental condensed matter physics from Oregon State University (1984) and then became a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at NRL. Upon becoming a staff member (1987), he conducted research in epitaxial growth, in situ characterization of growth, and electrical and spectroscopic characterization of various III–V semiconductors. For the last few years, he has lead epitaxial SiC and epitaxial graphene research efforts.

Zelei Guo

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; email zguo34@gatech.edu.

Guo received his BS degree in physics from Peking University, Beijing, China in 2009, with his thesis focused on electronic properties of Mobius graphene nano-strips. He is currently working toward his PhD degree in the School of Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research interests include low temperature electric transport properties of monolayer epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide, and utilizing this material in ultrahigh frequency electronic devices and circuits.

John Hankinson

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; email jhankinson@gatech.edu.

Hankinson received his BS degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California in 2009. His senior clinic project with Los Alamos National Labs focused on the design of a specialized thermal link for use with an anti-stokes laser refrigeration source. He is currently working toward his PhD degree at the School of Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include electronic transport properties and spin transport of epitaxial graphene on SiC.

Mark C. Hersam

Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3108, USA; tel. 847-491-2696; and email m-hersam@northwestern.edu.

Hersam is the Bette and Neison Harris Chair in Teaching Excellence and professor of materials science and engineering, chemistry, and medicine at Northwestern University. He earned a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) in 1996, a M.Phil. degree in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1997, and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from UIUC in 2000. His research interests include nanofabrication, scanning probe microscopy, semiconductor surfaces, and carbon nanomaterials. Hersam co-founded NanoIntegris, which is a commercial supplier of high performance carbon nanotubes and graphene. Hersam is a Fellow of MRS, AVS, and SPIE, and serves as an associate editor of ACS Nano.

Jeremy Hicks

School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; email hicks@gatech.edu.

Hicks is currently a PhD candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow working in the School of Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, he attended the University of Florida on a National Merit Scholarship, earning a BS degree in electrical engineering in 2007. His research interests include thin films, semiconductor fabrication, and new electronic device materials.

Yike Hu

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; email yhu9@mail.gatech.edu.

Hu received her BS degree in physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2007, with her thesis focused on zinc oxide thin film growth and characterization. She is currently working toward her PhD degree at the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include production and properties of epitaxial graphene grown on hexagonal silicon carbide and design and construction of novel graphene transistor structure.

Han Huang

National University of Singapore; email phyhh@nus.edu.sg.

Huang received his PhD degree in physics at Zhejiang University, China, in 2008 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the National University of Singapore under Professor Andrew Wee. He is scheduled to serve as a professor at Central South University in Changsha China at the end of 2012. His current research interests include molecule–substrate interface problems associated with molecular electronics, as well as fabrication and modification of graphene, graphene nanoribbons, and other two-dimensional materials.

Pinshane Y. Huang

School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University; email ph269@cornell.edu.

Huang is a graduate student in David Muller’s electron microscopy group at the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. Her research includes imaging and spectroscopy of 2D materials. Huang has a BA degree in physics from Carleton College (2008) and received a NSF graduate fellowship in 2009.

William Hurley

Chasm Technologies, Inc., Canton, MA, 02021, USA; tel. 781-821-0443; and email bhurley@chasmtek.com.

Hurley is a senior scientist at Chasm Technologies. He has a BS degree in chemistry from Villanova University and a PhD degree in materials engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Hurley has over 25 years in applied research, development, and manufacturing of nanomaterials, composites, construction, inks, and coating products. He also has over three years in developing CNT complex inks and coating fluids for a variety of printing methods. He is a co-inventor for six patents and a co-author for over 20 publications.

Robert H. Hurt

School of Engineering and Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA; tel. 401-863-2685; and email Robert_Hurt@brown.edu.

Hurt is a professor of engineering at Brown University and director of Brown’s Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation (IMNI). He received his PhD degree from MIT and held prior posts at Bayer AG in Germany and Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif. He is incoming editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Carbon and served as the Graffin Lecturer of the American Carbon Society, and as Technical Program Chair for the International Carbon Conference. His current research focuses on the interactions between nanomaterials, living systems, and the natural environment.

Laila Jaber-Ansari

Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3108, USA; tel. 847-467-0080; and email Laila@u.northwestern.edu.

Jaber-Ansari is a PhD candidate in materials science and engineering at Northwestern University, studying under Professor Mark C. Hersam. She received her BS degree in materials science and engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2004 and her M.Eng. degree in materials science and engineering from Northeastern University (MA) in 2009. Her research interests include application of carbon-based nanomaterials in energy storage devices.

Ashish C. Jachak

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA; tel. 401-863-2051; and email Ashish_Jachak@brown.edu.

Jachak was a postdoctoral research fellow in pathology and laboratory medicine at Brown University. He is a senior associate at Gradient Corp. in Cambridge, Mass. He received his BS degree from The Georgia Institute of Technology, MS degree from The University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, and his PhD degree from The Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on understanding the biological interactions between human lung cells and graphene materials. His doctoral research investigated the transport of engineered nanomaterials across human mucus. He is interested in CFD models of human airways and air pollution engineering.

Henri Jaffres

Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, 91767 Palaiseau and Université Paris Sud, 91405, Orsay, France; email Henri.jaffres@thalesgroup.com.

Jaffres is a scientist at the French CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). He completed his PhD degree at the National Institute for Applied Science (INSA)–University of Toulouse III, France, in 1999. Then, he joined the Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, Palaiseau, France, to work on spin tunneling for highly sensitive sensors. His recent work concerns nanospintronics and more particularly spin injection, spin transport, and spin transfer in semiconductor-based spintronics devices with electrical and optical detection.

Agnes B. Kane

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA; tel. 401-863-1110; and email Agnes_Kane@brown.edu.

Kane is a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. She received her MD and PhD degrees from the Temple University School of Medicine, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Karolinska Institute, and is board-certified in anatomic pathology. Her research focuses on the potential health effects of environmental and occupational exposures to asbestos fibers, mixed dusts, and nanomaterials. She works with Robert H. Hurt and Huajian Gao in the School of Engineering at Brown University to explore the physical, chemical, and structural properties of engineered nanomaterials relevant for toxicity.

Chang Yi Kong

Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA; tel. 864-656-2585; and email tcykong@ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp.

Kong was a visiting professor at Clemson University. He received his PhD degree in chemical engineering in 2001 from the Graduate School of Engineering at Yokohama National University (Japan). He later joined the Graduate School of Environment and Information Science at Yokohama National University (Japan). In 2008, he moved to the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at Shizuoka University (Japan) and was promoted to associate professor. His current research is on supercritical fluids and nanomaterials.

Yuehe Lin

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA; email Yuehe.lin@pnnl.gov.

Lin is a laboratory fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He joined PNNL in 1997 after he finished his PhD degree at the University of Idaho. His research focuses on the development of new BioMEMS and nanobioelectronic devices for environmental sensing and disease diagnosis. His other research activities include synthesizing functional nanomaterials for biosensing and imaging, drug delivery, fuel cells, and water-treatment applications. He has over 10 patents and has published about 300 papers with an H-index of 60 and a total citation >12,000. He is the editor or editorial advisory board member of 18 international journals. He was selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Jun Liu

Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; email: jun.liu3@case.edu.

Liu is a member of Professor Liming Dai’s research group at Case Western Reserve University. Liu received his PhD degree in chemistry from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2007. His research background includes solar cells based on graphene materials, development of graphene materials, synthesis of polymer photovoltaic materials, light-emitting polymers, and polymer light-emitting diodes.

Marie-Blandine Martin

Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, 91767 Palaiseau and Université Paris Sud, 91405, Orsay, France; email Marie-blandine.martin@thalesgroup.com.

Martin is a PhD student at the University of Paris Sud in Orsay, France, within the joint industrial/academic laboratory Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales. She received her BS degree in physics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France, and a MS degree from the University of Paris Denis Diderot in 2011. Her research focuses on spin transport properties in graphene.

Kevin F. McCarty

Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA; tel. 925-294-2067; and email mccarty@sandia.gov.

McCarty is a staff scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. He received a BA degree in chemistry and a PhD degree in chemical engineering, both from Iowa State University. For the past decade, his primary interest has been studying dynamic processes on surfaces using low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM). Research areas include the stability of thin films, mechanisms of bulk-surface mass exchange, and collective phenomena in film growth. The materials studied include metal oxides, metallic alloys, metal hydrides, graphene, and quasicrystals. A recent interest centers on using x-ray spectroscopies to probe surface electrochemistry in situ.

Jannik C. Meyer

Physics Department, University of Vienna, Austria; tel. +43-1-4277-72810; and email jannik.meyer@univie.ac.at.

Meyer is a professor of physics at the University of Vienna, Austria. His current research includes the structure and properties of novel low-dimensional materials, in particular graphene and other layered systems, and high-resolution electron microscopy. He is a graduate of the Rhenisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany (2002) and received a PhD degree from the University of Tübingen, Germany (2006). He worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany, the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (USA), and the University of Ulm (Germany).

David Muller

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA; email dm24@cornell.edu.

Muller is a professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell University, and co-director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science. His current research interests include the physics of renewable energy materials, atomic resolution electron microscopy and spectroscopy, and the atomic-scale control of materials to create non-bulk electronic phases. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney, received a PhD degree in physics from Cornell University, and worked as a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and recipient of the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America.

Rachael L. Myers-Ward

Electronics Science and Technology Division, Advanced SiC Epitaxial Research Laboratory, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA; tel. 202-404-1142; and email rachael.myers-ward@nrl.navy.mil.

Myers-Ward is an electrical engineer in the Power Electronics Branch/Power Electronic Materials Section at the US Naval Research Laboratory. She received a PhD degree in electrical engineering in 2006 and BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering in 2001 and 2003, respectively, from the University of South Florida. Her research interests include epitaxial growth of SiC via chemical vapor deposition, investigations of extended and point defects, and synthesis of epitaxial graphene.

Luke O. Nyakiti

Electronics Science and Technology Division, Advanced SiC Epitaxial Research Laboratory, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA: tel. 202-404-4584; and email luke.nyakiti.ctr@nrl.navy.mil.

Nyakiti is currently an ASEE Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the US Naval Research laboratory in the electronics science and technology division. He received his master’s degree in physics at Wichita State University (2004) and a PhD degree at Texas Tech University (2008), where his studies focused on synthesis and characterization of wide bandgap materials, specifically III-nitride. Current research interests emphasize epitaxial graphene synthesis for optimized device performance and growth of epitaxial compound semiconductor structures such as SiC for high power switching devices.

Taiichi Otsuji

Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan; tel. +81-22-217-6104; and email otsuji@riec.tohoku.ac.jp.

Otsuji received his Dr. Eng. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 1994. He has been a professor at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan since 2005 after working for Kyushu Inst. Tech. and NTT Laboratories, Japan. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed journals. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award of the 1997 IEEE GaAs IC Symposium. He is a member of the JSAP, IEICE, MRS, and IEEE, and a senior member of the OSA.

James Palmer

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; email jimbopalmer@gatech.edu.

Palmer received his BS degree in physics from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas in 2009. He is presently completing his PhD degree in physics at the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received a MS degree in physics in 2011. His research centers around methods of nanostructured growth of epitaxial graphene from thermal decomposition of SiC; characterization of epitaxial graphene by scanning probe and electronic techniques; and production of nanoscale electronic devices from epitaxial graphene.

Sokrates T. Pantelides

Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tenn. and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; email pantelides@vanderbilt.edu.

Pantelides is a University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering, a William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor of Physics, and a professor of electrical engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. He holds a secondary appointment as a distinguished visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his PhD degree in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1973. Before joining Vanderbilt in 1994, he spent 20 years at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he carried out theoretical research in semiconductors. He is the author or co-author of over 400 research articles and is the editor of eight books. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research focuses on the structure, defect dynamics, and electronic properties of electronic materials, radiation effects, transport in molecules and thin films, and catalysis.

Wilfrid Poirier

Laboratoire National de métrologie et d’Essais, Cedex, France; tel. +33 1 30 69 21 74; and email wilfrid.poirier@lne.fr.

Poirier joined the Laboratoire Central des Industries Electriques and then the Laboratoire National de métrologie et d’Essais (LNE) in the quantum electrical metrology department. He received a graduate level engineering diploma from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI) in 1993 and his PhD degree in solid-state physics from the Université de Paris VI, Paris, France, in 1997. His research work has concerned phase coherent electronic transport in mesoscopic semiconductor and supraconductor systems. His research interests focus on the development of a graphene-based resistance standard and the designing of a new cryogenic comparison resistance bridge.

Eric Pop

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; tel. 217-244-2070; and email epop@illinois.edu.

Pop is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC). His interests lie at the intersection of nanoelectronics and nanoscale energy conversion systems. Prior to UIUC, he completed post-doctoral work at Stanford and worked at Intel (2005–2007). He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Stanford (2005), and an MEng/BS degrees in electrical engineering and a BS in physics from MIT (1999). His awards include the Presidential Early Career (PECASE) Award (2010), and Young Investigator Awards from the ONR, NSF-CAREER, AFOSR, and DARPA (2008–2010). He is an IEEE senior member, a member of APS and MRS, and serves on the organizing committees of the APS, DRC, and IEDM conferences.

Vyacheslav Popov

Saratov Branch, Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Zelyonaya 38, 410019 Saratov, Russia; tel. +7 (8452) 272401; and email popov_slava@yahoo.co.uk.

Popov joined the Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1999, where he is currently head of the Photonics Laboratory. Popov is also a professor in the physics department at Saratov State University. He received Candidate of Science and Doctor of Science degrees in radiophysics from Saratov State University, Russia, in 1984 and 1999, respectively. Since 1990, he has served as head of the Advanced Studies Department at the Saratov Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals in the field of theory and modeling of electromagnetic phenomena in microelectronic and nanoelectronic devices.

Ricardo Prada Silvy

SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc., Norman, OK 73071, USA; tel. 405-809-6211; email rprada@swentnano.com.

Prada Silvy is the director of research and development at SWeNT, a consultant at Petrobras Cenpes in gas-to-liquid technology, and an affiliate professor at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. He holds a degree in chemistry with a major in chemical engineering from Universidad Central de Venezuela (1981) and MSc (1984) and PhD degrees in catalysis and material science (1987) from the Université Catholique de Louvain. He has more than 20 years of experience managing R & D projects and organizations, where 10 of them were spent developing and scaling processes for producing different types of carbon nanotubes and other nanomaterials. Prada Silvy is the author of more than 20 international patents on new catalyst systems employed for different oil refining and petrochemical processes and has published more than 100 scientific articles and communications. Before joining SWeNT, he worked for Nanocyl S.A., the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Petróleos de Venezuela S.A (PDVSA), and Procter & Gamble Co.

Robert F. Praino, Jr.

Chasm Technologies, Inc., Canton, MA, 02021, USA; tel. 781-801-5884; and email bpraino@chasmtek.com.

Praino is a co-founder of Chasm Technologies, Inc. He has 35 years of experience developing and manufacturing products utilizing film coating processes. Praino has BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA degree from Boston University. He co-founded Chasm in 2005, which has designed and managed capital equipment projects for roll-to-roll coating lines and nanomaterial manufacturing facilities. Praino is a member of the Society for Information Displays and the American Chemical Society.

Yevgeniy Puzyrev

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; email yevgeniy.s.puzyrev@vanderbilt.edu.

Puzyrev is a research associate in Professor Pantelides’ group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt University. He received his PhD degree in physics from Florida Atlantic University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2006, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at ORNL. In 2006, he was awarded an Early Career Scientists Scholarship at the Essential Tools for Nanoscience Research Symposium in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the electronic structure and defect dynamics in electronic materials.

Yang Qiu

School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA; tel. 401-863-3991; and email Yang_Qiu@brown.edu.

Qiu is a graduate student working toward a PhD degree at the School of Engineering at Brown University. He holds a BS degree from Peking University, China, and a MS degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His recent interest focuses on the interaction between cells’ membrane systems and graphene/graphene oxide.

Daniel E. Resasco

University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA; tel. 405-325-4370; and email ouresasco@gmail.com.

Resasco is the D. Bourne Chair and GLC Professor of chemical engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He received his PhD degree from Yale University in 1984. Resasco specializes in heterogeneous catalysis and nanostructured materials for applications in energy and materials. He has served as editor of the Journal of Catalysis and as an industrial consultant for several companies in areas related to catalysis, reaction engineering, and energy. Resasco is the author of more than 200 publications and 30 industrial patents, with more than 7,000 citations in the literature.

John-David R. Rocha

School of Chemistry and Materials Science, College of Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA; tel. 585-475-5150; and email jdrrocha@mail.rit.edu.

Rocha joined the School of Chemistry and Materials Science at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2012 as an assistant professor. He received his BS and MS degrees in chemistry from the University of North Texas in 1995 and 2002, respectively, followed by his PhD degree in 2008 from Rice University. Rocha’s areas of interest include chemical research, experimental and computational work in gas-phase chemical kinetics of atmospheric and combustion chemistry, as well as studies of organometallics. He is a member of the ACS Physical and Analytical divisions and also participates in activities with MRS, AAAS, and the Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).

Ajit K. Roy

Nanoelectronic Materials Branch, the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, OH; tel. 937-255-9034; and email ajit.roy@wpafb.af.mil.

Roy is a senior materials research engineer at the Nanoelectronic Materials Branch, the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He is a Fellow of ASME and ASC, Associate Fellow of AIAA, adjunct faculty with Purdue University, CWRU, and Wright State University; he also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the ASME Journal of Nanoengineering for Energy and Medicine, and has served as an associate editor of the AIAA Journal. He received his PhD and MS degrees in engineering mechanics from the University of Minnesota.

Ming Ruan

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; email ruan@gatech.edu.

Ruan received his BS degree in physics from Peking University. He graduated in June 2012 from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a PhD in physics under Walt de Heer’s supervision. His major research areas are epitaxial graphene growth, nanoelectronic device fabrication, and electronic transport measurement.

Rodney S. Ruoff

Cockrell Family Regents Chair, The University of Texas at Austin; email r.ruoff@mail.utexas.edu.

Ruoff joined The University of Texas at Austin as a Cockrell Family Regents endowed chair in September 2007. His earned his PhD degree in chemical physics from the University of Illinois-Urbana (1988) and was a Fulbright Fellow in 1988–89 at the Max Planck Institute fuer Stroemungsforschung in Germany. He was the John Evans Professor of Nanoengineering at Northwestern University and director of NU’s Biologically Inspired Materials Institute from 2002–2007. He has co-authored 325 peer-reviewed publications devoted to materials science, chemistry, physics, mechanics, engineering, and biomedical science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Maxim Ryzhii

Computational Nanoelectronics Laboratory, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, 965-8580, Japan; tel. +81-242-37-2566; and email m-ryzhii@u-aizu.ac.jp.

Ryzhii has been with the University of Aizu since 1993. Currently, he is an associate professor at Computational Nanoelectronics Laboratory. He earned a Doctor of Engineering degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2001. His research activity is associated with physics and modeling of low-dimensional heterostructures and electronic and optoelectronic devices on their basis. Ryzhii is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the American Physical Society.

Victor Ryzhii

Research Institute for Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan; tel. +81-22-217-5517; and email v-ryzhii@riec.tohoku.ac.jp.

Ryzhii was a professor at the University of Aizu from 1993 to 2012. Currently, he is a visiting professor at the Research Institute for Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan. He earned his PhD and Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) degrees in 1970 and 1975, respectively, from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. His studies focus on physics and modeling of low-dimensional heterostructures and electron and optoelectronic devices on their basis. He works on the creation of scientific basis for novel devices based on graphene. Ryzhii is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the IEEE, and Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Sushant Sahu

Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA; tel. 864-656-2585; and email sushans@g.clemson.edu.

Sahu is a graduate student at Clemson University. He received his BSc degree in chemistry from the University of Mumbai, India in 2003, and obtained his MSc degree in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India in 2006. He is presently a PhD candidate at Clemson under the supervision of Professor Ya-Ping Sun. His research involves the development of carbon dots for energy conversion applications.

Eiichi Sano

Research Center for Integrated Quantum Electronics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan; tel. +81-11-706-6874; and email esano@rciqe.hokudai.ac.jp.

Sano is a professor at the Research Center for Integrated Quantum Electronics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. He received BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. From 1977 to 2001, he was with NTT laboratories, where he worked on MOS device physics, mixed analog/digital MOS ULSIs, ultrafast MSM photodetectors, electro-optic sampling, high-speed electronic, and optoelectronic ICs. In 2001, he joined Hokkaido University as a professor. His current research interests include high-speed devices and circuits. He has published more than 200 papers in major journals and conference proceedings related to these research areas.

Akira Satou

Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan; tel. +81-22-217-6108; and email a-satou@riec.tohoku.ac.jp.

Satou is an assistant professor at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan. He received his BS, MS, and Dr. of Computer Science degrees from the University of Aizu, Japan. He was an assistant lecturer at the University of Aizu in 2008 and 2009. Since 2010, he has been an assistant professor at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan. His research interests are theoretical study on carrier transport in heterostructure two-dimensional electron gases and graphene for terahertz applications. He is the author and co-author of more than 30 papers in refereed journals.

Félicien Schopfer

Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais, Cedex, France; tel. +33 1 30 69 21 69; and email felicien.schopfer@lne.fr.

Schopfer is in the Quantum Metrology Group, Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais (LNE), Trappes, France. He earned a PhD degree in physics from the University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (in 2005) and an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Grenoble (INPG) (in 2001). His research interests are in the fields of mesoscopic quantum physics, quantum electronic transport at low temperature, and high magnetic field in nanostructures (metals or semiconductors). He is the co-author of the reproducibility test of the QHE in GaAs/AlGaAs, with the record uncertainty of 3×10^–11and is involved in the graphene research for its application to quantum metrology.

Pierre Seneor

Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, 91767 Palaiseau and Université Paris Sud, 91405, Orsay, France; email Pierre.seneor@gmail.com.

Seneor is an associate professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, and also a junior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. He completed his PhD degree at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, on spin dependent tunneling in oxides under the supervision of A. Fert. He then worked as a post-doctorate researcher at the California Institute of Technology before joining the joint industrial/academic laboratory Unité Mixte de physique CNRS/Thales. He works on nano and molecular spintronics, including graphene.

Ulrich Starke

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany; email u.starke@fkf.mpg.de.

Starke is a staff member of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany, and head of the Surface and Interface Analysis Group. He is a Privatdozent, teaching solid-state physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) in Erlangen. He received his doctoral degree in physics from the FAU and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley. After returning to Germany, he obtained his Habilitation at the FAU in 1998. From 2000–2002, he was a staff scientist at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany. His research interest is in semiconductor and metal surface science, especially on silicon carbide surfaces, and low-dimensional electron systems such as epitaxial graphene on SiC.

Maki Suemitsu

Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan; tel. +81-22-217-5485; and email suemitsu@riec.tohoku.ac.jp.

Suemitsu works as a professor at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, where he started his career as a semiconductor applied physicist. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Engineering at Tohoku University. His major interests include the growth and surface science of semiconducting thin films, which includes development of gas-source molecular beam epitaxy (GSMBE) of Si, SiGe, and SiC on Si substrates. The GSMBE of SiC especially brought him to the development of epitaxial graphene formation on Si substrates.

Ya-Ping Sun

Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA; tel. 864-656-5026; and email syaping@clemson.edu.

Sun is a full professor at Clemson University. He earned his PhD degree at Florida State University in 1989. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas, he joined the Clemson faculty as an assistant professor in 1992 and was promoted to associate professor in 1996 and full professor in 1999. Since 2003, he has been the endowed Frank Henry Leslie Chair Professor of Natural & Physical Sciences. His research focuses on the development of carbon-based nanomaterials and other novel materials for various technological applications.

Yongqiang Tan

SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc., Norman, OK 73071, USA; tel. 405-809-6213; and email tan@swentnano.com.

Tan is a senior development engineer at SWeNT. He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Mississippi and has more than 10 years of R&D experience in catalyst, surfactant, and nanomaterials. His expertise includes carbon nanotube syntheses, purification, dispersing, and characterizations. He has been a principal investigator and co-principal investigator for multiple Oklahoma State funded grants and a federal three-year NIST/TIP Joint Venture contract. Tan’s other scientific achievements include four patents and applications plus 18 internationally peer-reviewed journal articles.

Leonidas Tsetseris

National Technical University, Greece; email leont@mail.ntua.gr.

Tsetseris received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), and masters and PhD (2000) degrees in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. After holding research positions at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany, and at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA, in 2010, he was appointed as assistant professor in the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He has more than 60 papers published in peer-reviewed journals. He is using simulation tools to study defect evolution in graphene and other carbon-based nanomaterials, Ge-based gate stacks, and refractory and superhard materials.

Vikas Varshney

Universal Technology Corporation, Nanoelectronics Branch, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, OH; tel. 937-255-9024; and email vikas.varshney@wpafb.af.mil.

Varshney is a computational research scientist working for Universal Technology Corporation, employed at Nanoelectronics Materials Branch, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He received his PhD degree in polymer physics from the University of Akron and a B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His research interests broadly include multiscale modeling, nanocomposite structure-property relationships, thermal-electron transport, and surface / interface modeling at nanoscales. He has published over 40 articles in journals and conference proceedings in the field of polymeric and composite simulations and serves as a reviewer for several national and international journals.

Philip Wallis

SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc., Norman, OK 73071, USA; tel. 405-217-8388; and email pwallis@swentnano.com.

Wallis is the director of quality and technical support at SWeNT. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a doctoral degree in surface chemistry from the University of Bristol in England. He has more than 30 years’ experience in research and development, operations, and general management, particularly in the area of dispersions and ink formulation. Prior to joining SWeNT, he held senior positions at Eikos Inc., Graphic Utilities, and A.T. Cross. For the past nine years, Wallis has been involved with product development related to carbon nanotubes. His current interests are in the characterization of carbon nanotubes and their application to printed electronics for both transparent conductors and thin-film transistors.

Bin Wang

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; email bin.wang@vanderbilt.edu.

Wang is a research associate in Professor Pantelides’ group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University. He received his PhD degree in chemistry from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France) in 2010, supported by the Marie Curie Fellowship. In 2009, he was awarded a Young Scientist Prize at the 10^thInternational Conference on Atomically Controlled Surfaces, Interfaces and Nanostructures (Spain). His research focuses on the electronic properties of various materials with an emphasis on graphene using first-principles methods.

Andrew Wee

National University of Singapore; email phyweets@nus.edu.sg.

Wee is a professor of physics at the National University of Singapore, and is currently dean of the faculty of science. He has published more than 400 journal papers in the field of surface and interface science, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics UK, and Fellow and past president of the Institute of Physics Singapore. He is an associate editor for ACS Nano and on the editorial boards of Surface & Interface Analysis and Surface Review and Letters.

Virginia D. Wheeler

Electronics Science and Technology Division, Advanced SiC Epitaxial Research Laboratory, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA; tel. 202-404-4584; and email virginia.wheeler.ctr@nrl.navy.mil.

Wheeler is currently an ASEE postdoctoral research fellow at the US Naval Research Laboratory. She received a PhD degree in materials science and engineering from North Carolina State University (2009), where her studies focused on growth of III–V semiconductors and epitaxial dielectric deposition on GaN. Current research interests involve growth and defect management in semiconductors as well as the synthesis and functionalization of and dielectric deposition on graphene.

Swee Liang Wong

National University of Singapore; email g0901893@nus.edu.sg.

Wong is a NGS scholar currently pursuing a PhD degree at the National University of Singapore under the guidance of Professors Andrew Thye Shen Wee and Wei Chen. His current research interests include molecular interactions with graphene as well as employing them in the tailoring of the properties of graphene and studying both local and global effects using scanning tunneling microscopy and photoemission studies, respectively.

Fengnian Xia

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA; email fxia@us.ibm.com.

Xia received his BE degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing China, in 1998 and his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2005. He then joined IBM T.J. Watson Center as a postdoc and currently is a research staff member. His studies focus on nanoelectronics and nanophotonics for futuristic switches and optical communications using group IV materials such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, silicon, and germanium. He is also actively involved in carrier transport in reduced dimensional systems. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed papers and delivered numerous invited talks. Xia has received the IBM corporate award, three IBM research division awards, and many invention achievement awards. In 2011, he was selected by MIT Technology Review magazine as a top young innovator under the age of 35.

Yuhua Xue

Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; email yxx110@case.edu.

Xue is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Liming Dai’s group at the Case Western Reserve University. Xue received his PhD degree in chemical engineering from Zhejiang University in China in 2010. In April 2010, he became an associate professor at the Wenzhou Medical College in China and joined Dai’s group in January 2011. Xue’s current work focuses on the synthesis and characterization of carbon-based nanomaterials, including graphene and carbon nanotubes.

Yuqi Yang

Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, PR China; email yuqi_yang1987@yahoo.cn.

Yang joined the Central China Normal University in 2005 and currently is pursuing her PhD degree under the supervision of Professor Dan Du. Her research interests focus on electrochemical biosensors and synthesis of functional materials for bioassay and drug delivery.

Mei Zhang

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; email mxz128@case.edu.

Zhang is a research assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She also holds a joint appointment at the University Hospitals-Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Zhang’s expertise ranges across the synthesis and characterization of polymers and nanomaterials, nanotechnology, tumor immunology, and immunotherapy in the treatment of cancer. Her primary research interest is in applying polymer materials to the design and development of novel nanoparticle systems for multifunctional applications, including gene drug delivery, biomedical imaging, and bio-energy systems (e.g., bio-fuel cells).