Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes by Ijima in 1991, nanoscience has become a very active field, with great potential for countless applications. Recent study of single-file water transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) reveals that they can act as a water channel and/or ion channel in a biological system. While computer simulations using molecular dynamics (MD) and density functional theory (DFT) have been one of the main research methods in this field, manybody theory remains a very power tool. My expertise as a condensed matter theoriest allows me to make important contributions in this rapidly evolving field.
Currently, I have been collaborating with physicists in this area from other institutions. I am interested in physical properties of carbon nanotubes of finite size, e.g., dielectric response, and transport of water and ions through SWNTs, as well as nanoscale biological systems.