A University of Arkansas at Little Rock chemistry professor, his post-doctoral student, and colleagues at Stanford University, have developed a technique that could break through bottleneck that so far has stymied the scientific quest to create a new generation of electronic systems on the nano-scale. Dr. Wei Zhao, professor in UALR’s Department of Chemistry in the College of Science and Math, and his graduate student Xiaomin Tu, now a postdoctoral fellow at DuPont Central Research and Development, Wilmington, Del., are co-authors of an article in the Journal of the American Chemistry Society on the ability to achieve near single type purity nanotube production.
