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News and Special Events
Silver Nanoparticles - click to view an mp4 video of some current research in the Barron lab. Here's the streaming version.
"Can you put the brakes on high gas prices by literally putting on the brakes?" - on Houston's KTRK-TV, Channel 13, July 8, 2008
"Lighten Up to Get Better Gas Mileage" - video courtesy of KHOU-TV, Channel 11, Houston - June 26, 2008
Tips to Conserve Gas - video courtesy of Houston's CW39 - KHCW-TV News - May 24, 2008.
Item: AFM images by Barron Group graduate student Alvin Orbaek accepted for an ACS competition about imaging at the nanoscale. Find "The Face of Mars" under Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials!
Article: "Building the future one nanoparticle at at time" - by Barron Group graduate student Huma Jafry in The Ismali
Editors' Choice: Volume 320, Number 5874, Issue of 18 April 2008 - CHEMISTRY: Epoxide Exfoliants
©2008 by The American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Arnab Mukherjee, Christopher E. Hamilton, JungHo Kang, Soma Chakraborty, Wenhua Guo, Kevin F. Kelly, Andrew R. Barron, and W. Edward Billups*, Department of Chemistry and the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005
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Professor Andrew Barron discusses the Texas - UK Research Collaborative - March, 2008 |
Related articles: BP Selects Rice University ... and Simulated populations used to probe gene mapping |
Article: "Reframing the Concept of Nanotechnology" - Product applications and technology transfer issues - American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 86, No. 11
"New solar energy firm launches, heats competition" - Vanguard Solar's founders include former Harvard University professor and chief of the materials science department of Rice University, Andrew Barron - see the Houston Business Journal article
Newcyte, Inc. - The NewCyte founding team is comprised of leading scientists, successful business executives and experienced technology project managers, with over a century of combined science and management experience. Nanotech is behind new solar innovations from Georgia Tech, being commecialized by a company called NewCyte., Article: "3D solar cells boost efficiency, reduce size" - Cleantech.com
"Miracle Material Gets New Life" - "It was touted as the miracle material of the 1980s" - from the Harvard University Gazette
"Buckyballs Ferry Drugs into Cancer Cells Safely" - Scientists at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have developed...from nanotechwire.com , and this from EurekaAlert.com "Buckyballs used as 'passkey' into cancer cells"
"Rice Chemists Create, Grow Nanotube Seeds" - Study Proves Validity of Smalley's SWNT Amplification Concept - Nanotechnology Now article
"Nano drug delivery part of scientists' vision" - read more here on the results of ongoing collaboration, in this article from ChemLin , and this artcle from the Nanotechnology Group. The initial funding for this research was provided by the Keck Foundation through the Keck Futures Initiative
November 8, 2007: Presentation: An Academic Perspecitve of Collaboration, Scottish Research Partnership in Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland
November 6-7, 2007: Presentatiion: Academic and/or Company Research? ... or How should Universities take the lead with Energy Research?
Windsor Energy Meeting in Houston, TX: Building Bridges Between The Public and Private Sector - Conference PhotoBarron Group graduate student Alvin Orbaek's summer job - the Space Hotel! More from Irish TV.
nature nanotechnology | VOL 2 | JANUARY 2007 article : Cloning Carbon
Rice News 1/25/07: Buckyballs used as 'passkey' into cancer cells
Professor Andrew Barron named the Associate Dean for Industry and Technology Transfer in the Wiess School of Natural Sciences
Houston Business Journal article
Recent Publication: Journal of Materials Chemistry Hot Articles
"LPD silica coating of individual single walled carbon nanotubes"
Elizabeth A. Whitsitt, Valerie C. Moore, Richard E. Smalley and Andrew R. Barron, J. Mater. Chem., 2005, 15(44), 4678Keck Futures Initiative Announces Grant Recipients: $1 Million Awarded for 14 Research Projects
NANCY MONTEIRO-RIVIERE – North Carolina State University, Raleigh- ANDREW BARRON – Rice University, Houston
Proposal: NATURE OF FULLERENE NANOMATERIAL INTERACTIONS WITH BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Andrew R. Barron, Welch Chair of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science
Prof. Barron is the Charles W. Duncan, Jr. - Welch Chair of Chemistry, a Professor of Materials Science, and the Associate Dean for Industry Interactions and Technology Transfer at Rice University. Research in the Barron Group is currently aimed at the development of rational molecular design approach to materials synthesis, with an emphasis on the leap from synthesis to application of nano-based materials. Since 2002, the focus of research within the Barron Research Group has involved the functionalization of fullerenes and single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Areas being investigated include: biological applications and interactions, catalysis and materials applications. Functionalization of fullerenes as amino acids allows for their inclusion into polypeptides for the development of new approaches to the treatment of flagrant diseases. The development of a catalytic approach for the amplification of SWNTs may be likened to the polymerase chain reaction for DNA and is aimed at the fabrication of specific nanotube structures for energy applications. Prof. Barron created the first educational programs at Rice to span the Schools of Science, Engineering and Management, and is a co-director of the Rice Alliance for Entrepreneurship. He is also actively involved with educational programs in collaboration with the Rice section of the Society of Automotive Engineers. |
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Current Course Information
NSCI 610/ENGI 610 Management for Science and Engineering - Fall, 2008
Current Group Members
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Past Group Members
Group Photos
Welch Foundation Luncheon, 2002
Barron Group receives 2005 Laboratory Safety Award!
Dell Butcher Hall - Rice University Campus Home to the Barron Group laboratories - 4th Floor
Research
in the Barron GroupResearch in the Barron Group focuses on the chemistry and materials science of aluminum and its related elements in the periodic table. Our initiatives encompass problems across the fields of traditional inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, nanoscale science and technology, and materials science. A feature of the research in the Barron Group is the continuum from synthesis to application, especially the development of new materials and catalysts from an understanding of structure/bonding/reactivity correlation.
View this video on recent research in the lab!
For an overview and highlights from the Barron Group over the last decade click here. Current projects include: Lewis acidic compounds as catalysts, activators of main group metals and solid state sensors; the applications of nanoparticles in ceramic and organic composites; the control of ceramic and cement processing; the ambient, aqueous, growth of ceramic materials.
The Barron Group has interactions with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (of which Prof. Barron holds a joint appointment), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Jones School of Management.
Students and post-docs obtain an interdisciplinary experience, providing them a wide range of experience with tools that are available to research scientists. Group members have their own projects (rather than being just one of an army working on a single problem!), however, each Group member's research has significant overlap with others in the group.
Several programs are available to provide Graduate students with additional skills for use in academia, industry or business. The possibility for industrial internships is provided to Graduate Students at the end of the second year. To help prepare our graduate students for careers in entrepreneurial organizations (which these days includes academia!) Prof. Barron offers, in collaboration with the Jones School of Management, a course in entrepreneurial management for science and engineering.
For current research and prior results click here
September 7-11, 1997: 214th ACS National Meeting
March 29 - April 2, 1998: Dallas for the ACS Meeting. Here's our list of talks and posters. Group Photos here!
June of 1998 - to Florence for CIMTEC '98 - the World Ceramics Congress and Forum on New Materials. A. R. Barron, Rhonda Callender,and Chris Jones were in attendance. And along the way, group members visited Oxford! This turned into the to Barron Group European Tour!! England Photos.Italy Photos are here.
January 25, 1999: A. R. Barron and Rhonda Callender attended the American Ceramic Society's 23rd annual conference in Cocoa Beach. Side-trip photo here.
August 21 -26, 1999: New Orleans for the ACS Meetings. Abstracts are posted here.
October 21-23, 1999: El Paso for the Joint 55th Southwest/15th Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the ACS. Abstracts are posted here. And photos of a side trip to New Mexico!
August 20-24, 2000: Washington, DC, for the 220th ACS National Meeting. Abstracts are posted here.
December 6-8, 2000: The Joint Southeast-Southwest Regional Meeting of the ACS in New Orleans. Abstracts are posted here. New Orleans photos are posted here.
April 1-5, 2001: The 221st ACS National Meeting in San Diego. Abstracts are posted here.
October 17-20, 2001: The 57th Southwest Regional Meeting of the ACS in San Antonio, Texas. Abstracts are posted here.
February 8, 2002: The Welch Foundation Luncheon honoring Professor Barron. Photos are posted here.
November 3 - 6, 2002: The 58th ACS Southwest Regional Meeting, Austin, Texas. Abstracts are posted here.
March 23- 27, 2003: The 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Abstracts are posted here. Photos are posted here.
August 22-26, 2004: The 228th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Abstracts are posted here.
March 26 - 30, 2006: The 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA. Abstracts are posted here.
September 10 - 14, 2006 - American Chemical Society Meeting & Exposition -San Francisco, CA. Abstracts are posted here.
August 19-23, 2007 - American Chemical Society 234th National Meeting & Exposition - Boston, MA. Abstracts are posted here.
Conference and Meeting Abstracts
ACS Meeting, Dallas, TX - Spring, 1998
ACS Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Summer, 1999
ACS Regional Meeting, El Paso, TX - Fall, 1999
ACS Meeting, Washington, DC - Summer, 2000
ACS Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Winter, 2000
ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA - Spring 2001
ACS Regional Meeting, San Antonio, TX - Fall 2001
ACS Southwest Regional Meeting, Austin, TX- Fall 2002
ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Spring 2003
ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA - August, 200
ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA - March 26-30, 2006
ACS Meeting & Exposition -San Francisco, CA - September, 2006
Associate Dean for the Wiess School of Natural Sciences for Industry and Technology Transfer
Department of Chemistry at Rice University
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Rice University
Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology at Rice University
Weiss School of Natural Sciences at Rice University
Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship at Rice University
Rice Facts - What would you like to know about Rice University?
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Rice University is consistently ranked as one of America's best teaching and research universities. It is distinguished
by its size - 2,700 undergraduates and 1,500 graduate students; selectivity
-10 applicants for each place in the freshman class; resources - an undergraduate
student-to-faculty ratio of 5-to-1, and the fourth largest endowment per student
among private American universities; residential college system, which builds
communities that are both close-knit and diverse; and collaborative culture,
which crosses disciplines, integrates teaching and research, and intermingles
undergraduate and graduate work.
Rice's wooded campus is located in the
nation's fourth largest city , close to America's South Texas Coast.
