James Mitchell Tour

James Mitchell Tour (born August 18, 1959 in New York City ) is an American chemist .

Nanocar

Life

Tour graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree in 1981 and a PhD from Purdue University in 1986 . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University . In 1988 he became assistant professor and later professor at the University of South Carolina and from 1999 he was professor at Rice University at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. There he is TT and WF Chao Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and Computer Science.

He deals with nanoelectronics , electronics and photovoltaics with graphene (and its production from cheap natural products), pure representation of fullerenes , carbon nanotubes , hydrogen storage with nanotechnology, supercapacities from carbon compounds, chemical self-assembly , synthesis of molecular machines, environmentally friendly oil and Gas extraction, lithium-ion batteries and carbon nanotechnology for medical applications (carbon nanovectors for drug application in brain tumors).

In 2005 he developed the nanocar molecule, with fullerenes as wheels that roll on surfaces. The first model was still without molecular motors. He also synthesized a number of molecules (NanoPutians) that look like stick figure figures.

Tour published interactive teaching material for schools (NanoKid and others). In 2001 he signed a petition from the Discovery Institute ( A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism ) expressing doubts about Darwinism and serving as a justification for advocates of intelligent design . However, Tour himself states that he is not a proponent of intelligent design, but that he has doubts about current Darwinist theories of macroevolution.

He is the founder of NanoJtech Consultants and the Molecular Electronics Corporation. Tour has over 60 US patents (2012) and over 500 scientific publications.

In 2008 he received the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology and in 2020 the Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry .

Web links

• Website of his group

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ↑ Yasuhiro Shirai, Andrew J. Osgood, Yuming Zhao, Kevin F. Kelly, James M. Tour: Directional Control in Thermally Driven Single-Molecule Nanocars. In: Nano Letters. Volume 5, 2005, pp. 2330-2334, doi: 10.1021 / nl051915k , PMID 16277478 .
3. ↑ Tour, Homepage ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.