Title: Past, Present and Future of Carbon Nanotube Research: Progress in 3 Decades

Dr. Arepalli is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University. He received his Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur and did postdoctoral work at Univ. of Pennsylvania and Cornell University. During 2013 to 2014, he was the Vice President at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), Hampton, Virginia and supported NASA Langley. From 2009 to 2013, he was a Senior Professor in the Department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. He was the Chief Scientist of the Applied Nanotechnology Program and Reentry Plasma Diagnostics Program at NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston and worked there for 22 years. He received global recognition for his work on single wall carbon nanotubes. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and was nominated as a Fellow of APS. His current focus is on nanomaterials for energy applications as well as nanocomposites for aerospace structures, environmental sensors and bioimplants.

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