James Tour

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

Life

Tour graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor 's degree in 1981 and in 1986 received his doctorate at Purdue University. As a post - graduate student, he was 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 a professor at Rice University at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. He is there TT and WF Chao Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and computer science.

It deals with nano-electronics, electronics and photovoltaics with graphs ( and its preparation from inexpensive natural products), pure representation of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, hydrogen storage with nano technology, super-capacitors from carbon compounds, chemical self - assembly synthesis of molecular machines, environmentally friendly oil and gas extraction, lithium-ion batteries and carbon nano technology for medical applications ( carbon nano- vectors for drug delivery in brain tumors ).

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

Tour issued interactive teaching material for schools ( NanoKid and others). He signed a petition in 2001 the Discovery Institute (A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism ), the doubts of Darwinism expresses and serves as a justification for representatives of intelligent design. Tour is but to himself, to be a proponent of intelligent design, but have doubts about current Darwinian theories of macroevolution.

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

In 2008 he received the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology.