• Synthesis and selection methods
• Electronic, optical and mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes, graphene and related devices
• Functionnalization, dispersion, processing
• Metrology and standardization
• Composites and materials science
• Other applications and industrial issues

Invited speakers

• Pulickel Ajayan (Rice University, USA)
• Eva Andrei (Rutgers, USA)
• Sarah Burke (British Columbia, Canada)
• Millie Dresselhaus (MIT, USA)
• Toshiaki Enoki (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
• Klaus Ensslin (ETH, Switzerland)
• Andrea C. Ferrari (Cambridge, UK)
• Andre Geim (Manchester, UK) ***
• Paco Guinea (Madrid, Spain)
• Tony Heinz (Columbia, USA)
• Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT, USA) ***
• Francesco Mauri (Paris, France)
• Kostya Novoselov (Manchester, UK)
• Francois M. Peeters (Antwerpen, Belgium)
• Alain Penicaud (Bordeaux, France)
• Vitor Manuel Pereira (Boston University, USA)
• Nuno Peres (Minho, Portugal)
• Rod Ruoff (Austin, USA)
• Lieven Vandersypen (Delft, Netherlands) ***
• Amir Yacoby (Harvard, USA) ***

*** To be confirmed

Please visit the Conference Web site for more information. Registration and abstract submission are already open.

Organizers

Marcos A. Pimenta
Antonio H. Castro Neto
Luiz Gustavo Cancado

This growing interest, triggered by the numerous potential applications of graphene in future nanotechnology, motivates the creation of an interdisciplinary school on graphene. The school is aimed at PhD students, post-doctoral and young researchers in the first instance. The School is taking place in Cargèse, France from October 12 to October 22, 2010 at the Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse.

The school, initiated by the GdR-I «Graphene and Nanotubes», will deal with properties and characterization of monolayers and multilayers of graphene and graphene-based nano-objects, from the points of views of physicists, chemists and material scientists. Both fundamental and applied aspects will be considered. It will offer participants both background lectures, essential for the interdisciplinary approach that is proposed, and specialized courses, which will include the most recent developments in the field. Practical training on numerical simulations and experimentation such scanning tunnelling microscopy will be organized. The lecturers of the school are researchers known for their pedagogic skills and internationally recognized for their expertise in the field of graphene. The participants will be encouraged to present their own work (also in adjacent fields) during poster sessions.

Detailed information about the GDR-I and the School is available on their website.

Conference Scope

Carbon nanotubes have many fascinating properties, owing to their quasi one-dimensional structure. This creates a wide range of issues for fundamental research, as well as a wealth of opportunities for technological application. Progress in the field over the past few years has been remarkable, and applications for this unique material are starting to make the move from the laboratory into the mainstream. In the tradition of the NT conference series, this meeting will bring leading researchers in the area of nanotube science and technology together to evaluate the current state of the art and to identify current trends. The conference will encompass the frontiers of fundamental science as well as applied research, and will enable and encourage participants to exchange their latest ideas and results.

Topics receiving special attention include:

• Mechanical properties of nanotubes and nanotube-based composites
• Electronic properties of nanotubes and nanotube-based electronic devices
• Optical characterization and optical properties
• Progress in synthesis
• Purification and sorting of nanotubes
• Chemical processing and modification of nanotubes
• Applications for nanotubes

From June 27 to July 2, 2010 in Montreal (Canada)
Official website: NT10

Format of the Conference

The main “general session” of the NT10 conference is 4 days long with a combination of invited talks (5 keynotes and 10 invited), contributed presentations (about 25 selected from submitted abstracts), and poster sessions (6 sessions).

Preceding the main conference are 4 satellite workshops, each up to 2 days long, addressing specific topics, and each with additional invited talks and contributed talks selected from submitted abstracts.

Also preceding the main conference is a tutorial session intended primarily for graduate students. At the poster sessions, there will also be exhibitors displaying materials and equipment of interest to nanotube researchers.

Past Conferences

NT99: Michigan State University, USA
NT01: Potsdam, Germany
NT02: Boston College, USA
NT03: Seoul National University, Korea
NT04: San Luis Potosi, Mexico
NT05: Göteborg, Sweden
NT06: Nagano, Japan
NT07: Ouro Preto, Brazil
NT08: Montpellier, France
NT09: Beijing, China