AMD appoints carbon nanotubes pioneer Ajayan to advisory panel

Advanced Material Development (AMD) has appointed Professor Pulickel Ajayan of Rice University, Houston, Texas, to its advisory panel. AMD chief executive John Lee said: “This appointment will serve to catalyse AMD’s intentions in the US and enable cross-collaboration between our UK research teams with the tremendous resources and experience of the Rice University team in Houston. “We look forward to revealing more of these exciting plans in fields such as energy storage and harvesting, functional coatings and sensor technologies as the relationship develops.” Prof Ajayan is the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor of Engineering at Rice University, holding joint appointments in the departments of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Chemistry. A pioneer in the field of carbon nanotubes, including early work on the topic along with the NEC Group, Ajayan has published one book and more than a thousand journal papers with more than 170,000 citations and an h-index of 196. He is on the advisory editorial board of several materials science and nanotechnology journals and on the boards of several nanotech companies, as well as being elected to the US National Academy of Inventors. Professor Ajayan, said: “It is an honour to be part of the advisory board of AMD and I look forward to developing new interactions and technologies in collaboration with the AMD team in the future.” READ: AMD joins govt-funded consortum looking to reduce waste in food supply chains using technology AMD was first set up to fund the research & development coming out of the University of Sussex, adding close relationships with the University of Surrey and the University of Texas at Austin in the USA.