Dr Chris Ewels

 

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Biography : A brief potted history, CV

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Chris Ewels

NEWS: I am one of the five 2006 Winners of the "Marie Curie Excellence Awards". More details are available here (pdf). There is also information on the Marie Curie website, and here, and the speech given by the president of the jury, Jozef Ritzen, is on the web.


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I'm a scientist working in the emerging field of nanotechnology, currently studying the interaction between nanostructures and other atomic and molecular species. I used to work for the Vega Science Trust, a charity that helps the science and technology communities to communicate using television and the Internet (developing science broadcasting on the Web, TV programme research and development, etc).

More specifically I'm a full-time CNRS researcher at the Institute of Materials in Nantes, France, working on computer modelling of point and line defects - intrinsic defects in carbon and boron nitride nanotubes, defects in graphite and fullerenes, gas absorption and chemical bonding to nanostructures, nanotube functionalisation, novel nanostructures, and the interaction between impurities such as hydrogen and dislocations in diamond and silicon. I also use EELS microscopy of nanomaterials and spent a year building nanotube based epoxy resin and ceramic composites. My previous PhD work was on electronic and structural behaviour of point defect impurities in semiconductors such as Si and InP.

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