Tribute to Dr Alan McDiarmid

Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Chair: Yan Wie Drexel University

A. MacDiarmid's Achievements in Materials and Innovation (75th Birthday) is given below:

• 2:00-2:30 pm: Dr. Hai-Lung Dai, University of Pennsylvania "Alan MacDiarmid, my colleague as a gentleman-scientist"
  
• 2:30-3:00 pm: Dr. Marie Angelopoulos, IBM Watson research Center (Alan's former PhD student).
  
  
• 3:00-3:30 pm: Dr. Gary Min, DuPont Electronic Technologies (Alan's former PhD student)
  "Towards 21st Century Electronic Industry: Challenges and Opportunities For Electric Active Polymers"
  
• 3:30-4:00 pm: Dr. Kambiz Pourrezaei, Drexel University, Co-Director of the Pennsylvania Nanotechnology Institute. "Application of new optical tools in brain imaging".
  4:00-4:30 pm: Dr. Gary Min, DuPont Electronic Technologies.
  "Towards 21st Century Electronic Industry: Challenges and
  Opportunities For Electric Active Polymers"
  
• 4:30-5:00 pm:Prof. Fotis Papadimitrakopoulos, University of Connecticut.
  "A novel route for bulk separation of metallic from semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes"
  
• 5:00-5:30 pm:Prof. Huixin He, Rutgers University. "Nanoelectronics of Polyaniline"