Student Project Abstracts 2005 - Pluto - University of Washington

TOWARD MOLECULAR RESOLUTION C-AFM WITH CARBON NANOTUBE TIPS: DEVELOPMENT OF CARBON NANOTUBE GROWTH TECHNIQUEStrogen Doping on Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis at CarbonNanofiber Electrodes. J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 4707-4716.3Stephen Maldonado and Keith J. Stevenson *. Direct Preparationof Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes via Pyrolysis of Iron(II)Phthalocyanine: Electrocatalytic Aspects for Oxygen Reduction.J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 11375-11383.4Christian P. Deck, Kenneth Vecchio *. Growth mechanism ofvapor phase CVD-grown multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Carbon43, 2005, 2608–2617.5R. Schlaf* et al. Using carbon nanotubes catilevers in scanningprobe metrology. In press.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS-Dr. Neal R. Armstrong, Professor of Chemistry and OpticalSciences, University of Arizona-Armstrong Research Group-Dr. Ken Nebesny, associate staff scientist, LESSA facility, Universityof Arizona-Paul Lee, assistant staff scientist, LESSA Facility, Universityof Arizona-Clayton Shallcross, Graduate Student, University of Arizona-Alex Veneman, Graduate Student, University of Arizona-Margo Ellis – FESEM operator-Dr. Timothy Vail, Dept. of Chemistry, Northern Arizona UniversityFunding provided by the Center on Materials and Devicesfor Information Technology Research (CMDITR), an NSF Scienceand Technology Center No. DMR 0120967I’d like to thank Dr. Neal R. Armstrong, and his group formentoring me this summer at the University of Arizona.80 CMDITR Review of Undergraduate Research Vol. 2 No. 1 Summer 2005