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Prof Dave CarrollDirector of the Center for nanotechnolgoy and Molecular Materials, Associate Professor of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Dave Carroll earned his B.Sc and Ph.D in physics from NC State University and Wesleyan University respectively. He subsequently held post-doctoral and research associate positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the Max-Planck-Insitut für Metallforschung in Stuttgart Germany. In 1997 Professor Carroll began the Laboratory for Nanotechnology at Clemson University (SC) where he recieved early promotion and tenure in the department of physics. At Clemson he established a program in organic devices based upon carbon nanotube nanocomposites demonstrating enhanced lifetime and performance in OLEDs for the first time. In 2003, Professor Carroll's group moved to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem NC to establish the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials. This move allowed the research team to expand its work into the fields of biomedical nanotechnologies and to continue their work in nanocomposite organic devices such as photovoltaics. Professor Carroll's team continues to push the state-of-the-art in performance of organic solar cells, having set performance records twice in recent years. Today, professor Carroll's primary research interests are: Growth and assembly of novel nanostructures, Optics of nanostructures and Nano-photonics, Quantum-functional properties of nanophase blends, Organic nanocomposite devices and technologies including organic photovoltaics, lighting systems, and IR sensors, Biomedical-nanotechnology including smart therapeutics, advanced/responsive tissue scaffolding technology, and biological-technology signal transduction. Since becoming faculty, Professor Carroll has published over 200 articles in scholarly journals such as PRL, APL, Advanced Materials, and NanoLetters with an h-index of 28. He has published 1 text book: One Dimensional Metals, edited two books, written three book chapters, and holds 15 patents or patent filings.
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