Plasma Processing of Nanomaterials

R. Mohan Sankaran is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2004. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at CWRU in 2005 as the John C. Angus Legacy Assistant Professor. As a faculty member, he has received several awards, including the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the Young Investigator Program Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Case School of Engineering Research Award, and the Peter Mark Memorial Award from the American Vacuum Society. He is recognized worldwide for his work on atmospheric-pressure microplasmas and their application in nanomaterials synthesis.Dr. Sankaran received the American Vacuum Society’s 2011 Peter Mark Memorial Award for his outstanding contributions to tandem plasma synthesis.

• Nanoscale Etching and Deposition. Extreme Ultraviolet Light Lithography for Producing Nanofeatures in Next-Generation Semiconductor Processing. Nonthermal Plasma Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanocrystals. Microscale Plasmas for Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis. Large-Scale, Plasma-Assisted Growth of Nanowires. Cathodic Arc Discharge for Synthesis of Carbon Nanoparticles. Atmospheric Plasmas for Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs). Structural Control of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition. Graphene Growth by Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD). Modeling Aspects of Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon-Based Materials. Modeling Catalytic Growth of One-Dimensional Nanostructures. Diagnostics of Energy Fluxes in Dusty Plasmas. Selective Functionalization and Modification of Carbon Nanomaterials by Plasma Techniques. Plasma–Liquid Interactions for Fabrication of Nanobiomaterials. Assembly and Self-Organization of Nanomaterials.

CRC Press author R. Mohan Sankaran is the winner of the 2011 Peter Mark Memorial Award "… for the development of a tandem plasma synthesis method to grow carbon nanotubes with unprecedented control over the nanotube properties and chirality." —2011 AVS Awards Committee"Readers who want to learn about how nanomaterials are processed, using the most recent methods, will benefit greatly from this book. It contains very recent technical details on plasma processing and synthesis methods used by current researchers developing new nano-based materials, with all the major plasma-based processing techniques used today being thoroughly discussed."—John J. Shea, IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, May/June 2013, Vol. 29, No. 3