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Dr. Yoke Khin Yap will be the lead organizer for an international symposium “Nanotubes and Related Nanostructures,” in the 2007 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall meeting to be held on Nov. 26-30, 2007 in Boston. A total of 20 oral sessions and 4 poster sessions will be prepared to accommodate about 25 invited lectures and 350 contributing papers in the symposium.

In addition, Dr. Yap was invited to participate in the Baseline Peer Review of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) on Dec. 4-5, 2006. This is the first major review of the national center since its formation about three years ago. CNMS is one of five Nanoscale Science Research Centers currently being established by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy. CNMS sponsors seven scientific themes which consist of more than a hundred national and international user projects. During the review, research accomplishments achieved in each scientific theme were presented by the theme leader (ORNL research scientist) and a user selected from the user programs. Dr. Yap was selected to highlight his research activity developed under the Functional Materials theme, with a talk entitled “Controlled Growth of Carbon, Boron Nitride, and ZnO Nanotubes”. During his visit, Dr. Yap conducted experiments and engaged in discussions with the CNMS research team about his second funded collaborative project entitled “Growth and Characterization of Pure and Doped Boron Nitride Nanotubes”.

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