JAMES MITCHELL TOUR جيمس ميتشل تور
James M. Tour is an American synthetic organic chemist , specializing in nanotechnology . Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, and Professor of Computer Science at Rice University in Houston , Texas , United States . Tour received degrees from Syracuse University (BS, 1981), Purdue University (PhD, 1986) and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1986–1987) and Stanford University (1987–1988). Career He worked in molecular electronics and molecular switching molecules. Tour's work on carbon materials chemistry is broad and encompasses fullerene purification, [2] [3] composites, [4] [5] conductive inks for radio frequencies identification tags, [6] [7] carbon nanoreporters for identifying oil downhole, [8] [9] graphene synthesis from cookies and insects, [10] graphitic electronic devices, [11] [12] carbon particle drug delivery for treatment of tr