Outline of Lecture

1. Introduction - Nanotubes and Nanodevices
   1. Carbon - new material for electronics
   2. Carbon nanotube fabrication methods
   3. Carbon nanotube devices
2. Methods of Continual Modeling for Graphitic Systems: Scrolling at Nanoscale
   1. Experimental results for scrolling
   2. Scrolling model
   3. Continuum theory 
   4. Atomistic defect modeling
   5. Simulated shapes
   6. Continuum energetics of cylinders
   7. Optimal nanotube regrowth
   8. Nanotube formation from stripe
   9. Sleeve formation
   10. Nanotube zipping formation
   11. Molecular mechanics simulation
3. Nanotubes and Nanodevices: Theory and Simulation
   1. Nanotube electronic structure
   2. Nanotube electrostatics
   3. Nanotube transport devices
   4. Gating of single wall nanotube
   5. Nanotube based electromechanical systems
   6. Examples of applications
   7. Quantum corrections for van der Waals forces
   8. Computational model details

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3