2007      2006      2005   

2013

Greencarcongress.com: Researchers at Rice University develop vanadium oxide-graphene materials for high power-density Li-ion batteries with ultrafast charging and discharging
Futurity: Hybrid ribbons give batteries oomph
Rice News: Hybrid ribbons a gift for powerful batteries
Science360 Breaking Story: Novel Technique Points Toward 2-D Devices
Rice News: Researchers create fine patterns that combine single-atom-thick graphene, boron nitride

2012

Houston Chronicle:domain-b: Need a battery? Just check the garden
Materials360: Graphene has Unique Tribological Properties
Ajayan receives Swadeshi Sastra Puraskaram (Award)
domain-b: Green batteries: extract of madder plant works as lithium-ion cathode news
Futurity: Plant extract works as cathode for batteries
Foxnews: Herbs could be used as electric car battery cathodes
Rice News: Rice cultivates green batteries from plant
YouTUBE: Campus Conversations with the President: Pulickel Ajayan, September 2012 
Scientific Codex: Waste not, power up
Rice News: Waste not, power up
YouTUBE: Rice researchers invent paintable battery
ScientificAmerican: Cover Charge: New Spray-On Battery Could Convert Any Object into an Electricity Storage Device
Forbes: Soon We Might Spray-Paint Batteries Onto Any Surface
BBC News: 'Paint-on' batteries demonstrated
Rice News: Rice researchers develop paintable battery
nanowerk: 'Nanocable' could be big boon for energy storage
NSF news from the field: "Nanocable" Could Be Big Boon for Energy Storage
Sciencedaily: 'Nanocable' Could Be Big Boon for Energy Storage
Rice News: ‘Nanocable’ could be big boon for energy storage
Techbeat: Nano-based transformer insulating fluid
ScientificAmerican: Nanosponge can absorb 100 times its weight in oil
ScienceDaily: Sponging Up Oil Spills: Nanosponges Soak Up Oil Again and Again
YouTUBE: Nanotube sponge soaks up oil
Rice News: Nanosponges soak up oil again and again
nano werk: Nano-oils keep their cool
Green Car Congress: Rice team develops thermal nano-oil with high thermal conductivity and good insulation properties
ScienceDaily: Nano-Oils Keep the Electronic Devices Really Cool
Rice News: Nano-oils keep their cool
Softpedia: Graphene Is Nearly 'Invisible' to Water
ScienceDaily: Graphene 'Invisible' to Water: How the Extreme Thinness of Graphene Enables Near-Perfect Wetting Transparency
Rice News: Water sees right through graphene
PhotonicsSpectra: One-step process turns carbon fibers into graphene QDs
LaserFocusWorld: Graphene quantum dots are fabricated in bulk from ordinary carbon fiber
Rice News: Graphene quantum dots: The next big small thing


2011

Georg R. Brown School of Engineering: Ajayan wins two MURIs
technology review: Nanotube Cables Hit a Milestone: As Good as Copper
CEP, September 2011: Graphene Oxide Plays Double Agent in Supercapacitors (pdf)
BN paper cited with figure in Angewandte Chemie International Edition: Advances with Ammonia-Borane: Improved Recycling and Use as a Precursor to Atomically Thin BN Films
YouTUBE: Nanocables light way to the future
theEngineer: Double-walled nanotube cables could replace traditional wiring
POPSCI - the future now: Lightweight Cable Made of Braided Nanotubes Could Replace Copper Wires
YouTUBE: Graphite oxide + water + laser = breakthrough
Physorg.com: A simple slice of energy storage
The Times of India: Indian origin scientist designs nanosized batteries
The Economic Times: Now, nano-sized batteries to power mobiles!
Geeky Gadgets: Worlds Smallest Battery Is 60,000 Times Smaller Than A Single AAA Battery
YouTUBE: Magic Sand at Rice University
USA Today: Carbon coated sand improves purification of drinking water
BBC: 'Super sand' to help clean up dirty drinking water
Physorg.com: 'Super sand' for better purification of drinking water (Update)
Science Daily: Self-Strengthening Nanocomposite Created
The Economist: Stronger when stricken
C&EN Science and Technology Concetrates: Stressing Strengthens Nanocomposites JPG
DailyTech.com: Polymer-Based Nanocomposites with Carbon Tube Filters Strengthen Through Stress
CrunchGear: Researchers Create Material That Gets Stronger With Increased Stress
futurity.org: Nanomaterial bulks up under stress
Sanketh is one of the Winners of the Graduate and Post Doctoral Student Presentations at the 2011 Nanotechnology Venture ForumTryEngineering.org: Meet professionals/Nano Experts: Ajayan

2010

ieee spectrum: Building 3D Batteries from the Bottom Up with Coated Nanowires
Science Magazine: Microbatteries With Nanowire Hearts
Scientific Computing: Building Better Batteries from the Nanoscale Up
Nano Letters: Most prolific authors 2001-2009
Rice News: Ajayan among influential Nano Letters' top contributors
ASME Nano Educational Series Podcasts: NanoComposites, Energy Storage Devices and Energy Storage Lab
"Large Scale Growth and Characterization of Atomic Hexagonal Boron Nitride Layers", Ricenews, Next Big Future, Nano Werk, ScienceDaily, PHYSORG
"Nanotube-based printed electronics", Select news citations: Rice News, Nanowerk, ScienceDaily, NanotechWire, Nano Patents and Innovations, EETimes, Future Technology
"Nanotubes applied for filtration and catalysis", Select news citations: Rice News, TCE Today, Sciencedaily, R&D Magazin, AzoNano, Physorg, Nanotechweb
"Science and Mexico are the losers in institute politics", Nature, March 2010 [PDF]
The BCN paper's illustration made to Nature Materials' cover page, Nature Materials Vol. 9 (2010)
"Hybridized Graphene: Nanoscale Patchwork" by Angel Rubio, Nature Materials
"Graphene Hybrid: One-Atom-Thick Sheet Offers New Microelectronic Possibilities", ScienceDaily, March 6
"Researchers make graphene hybrid", Physorg.com, March 1
"Creating a graphene hybrid", R&D Magazine, March 2

2009

"Novel chemical approach to graphene" Chemistry Word, March 2009 [PDF]
"Nanotubes find niche in electric switches" Eurekalert, March 10, 2009 [PDF]
"Batteries get a (nano)boost" Physorg.com, February 9, 2009 [PDF]


2008

"Dark discovery" Rice news, Sept 2008 [PDF]
"Designer nanobatons could be used to trap oil, deliver drugs" Sciencedaily, May  29, 2008 [PDF]
" Nanoparticles assemble by millions to encase oil traps" Physorg.com May 29, 2008 [PDF]
"A Blacker Black: Darkest known material created" National Geographic News, Jan 24, 2008 [PDF]
"Silver nanoparticles: protective paints" news@ Nature Nanotechnology, Jan 25, 2008 [PDF]
"Low-cost, Green way to make antimicrobial paints developed, Science Daily, Jan 24, 2008 [PDF]
"Darkest ever" material created- BBC News, Jan 2008 [PDF]
"New material pushes the boundary of darkness" Reuters, Jan 2008 [PDF]
Prof. Ajayan speaks on the creation of  'World's darkest material', National Public Radio (USA), Jan, 2008 []
"Carbon nanotubes: Blacker than black" news@ Nature Nanotechnology, Jan 25, 2008 [PDF]
"Creative connect" - Prof. Ajayan featured in The Hindu (India) (2008) [PDF]

2007

Prof. Ajayan elected as member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (2007)
"Paper thin batteries offer new options, applications" news @ Voice of America (2007) [PDF] [VIDEO]
Prof. Ajayan elected as fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Prof. Ajayan selected as Nano50 Innovator by Nanotech Briefs (2007) [PDF]
Graduate Student, Fung Suong Ou receives Foresight Institute’s distinguished student award 2007 [PDF]
Prof. Ajayan on 'Paper battery' in Aaj Tak TV (India) []

"Flat battery? Try a bit of paper power.." CNN International, Sept 20, 2007 [PDF]

"Storing electricity: It looks good on paper" Economist, Aug 16, 2007[PDF]                                                            

"Paper holds the power" news@nature.com, Aug 13, 2007 [PDF]

"New battery ressembles paper" Science news@Science magazine, Aug 13, 2007 [PDF]

"Power paper: Energy storage by the sheet" Scientific American, Aug 14, 2007 [PDF]

"Tough tubes: Carbon nanotubes hold potential for synthetic tissue, muscles" Science Daily July 4, 2007 [PDF]

"Nanotubes strengthen artificial muscles" New Scientist, July 4, 2007 [PDF]

"Climbing walls with carbon nanotubes" Technology Review, June 25, 2007 [PDF]

"Nanotube Adhesive sticks better than a Gecko's foot" ScienceDaily, June 20, 2007 [PDF]
"Nanotubes could improve thermal management in Electronics" ScienceDaily, March 30, 2007 [PDF]
"Hybrid structures combine the strengths of carbon nanotubes and nanowires" Physorg.com, January 8, 2007 [PDF]


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