A contribution of graduate student Muhammad A. Wahab and Professor Alam on purification of carbon nanotubes has been published in Nature Communications.

The paper is titled "Microwave purification of large-area horizontally aligned arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes". The theoretical work at Purdue enabled the experimental demonstration by John Rogers group at UIUC.

Muhammad A. Wahab is working towards his PhD with Prof. Alam. His research focuses on design and computation of electrical devices to remove metallic carbon nanotube from the aligned-array aiming digital logic application at sub-10 nm technology node. He also explores the self-heating and other reliability constraints of those devices.

Paper link: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/141112/ncomms6332/full/ncomms6332.html#auth-3