Skip navigation to main content. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)NREL HomeInnovation for Our Energy Future
About NRELScience and TechnologyTechnology TransferApplying TechnologiesLearning About Renewables
Basic Sciences Research
Basic Sciences Research Home Research and Development Biological Sciences Biomolecular Sciences Carbon-Based Nanoscience Research Staff Chemical Sciences and Nanoscience Computational Materials Science Optoelectronics Scientific Computing Solid State Spectroscopy Solid State Theory Superconductivity News

Tom Gennett - Sabbatical Visitor

Photo of Tom Gennett
phone: 303-384-6628
email: Thomas.Gennett@nrel.gov
At NREL since

Dr. Thomas Gennett is a Professor of Chemistry and a member of the graduate faculty of the Materials Science and Engineering Dept. at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is co-founder and was director (2001–03) of the highly successful NanoPower Research Laboratory at RIT. Since 1998, Dr. Gennett has had a strong collaboration with the Nanostructured Materials Group at NREL, being an onsite visiting Senior Scientist from 1998–2001 and 2003–present. His research has focused on using pulsed laser vaporization to produce high-purity single-wall nanotubes, quantum dots, and other nanoscale materials and has made significant advances in the purification and derivatization of the carbon-based nanostructured materials.

Selected Publications

  1. J.D. Harris, R.P. Raffaelle, T. Gennett, B.J. Landi, A.F. Hepp, “Growth of multi-walled carbon nanotubes by injection CVD using cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer and cyclooctatetraene iron tricarbonyl,” Materials Science and Engineering B, 116( 3), 369–74, 2005.
  2. B.J. Landi, R.P. Raffaelle, M.J. Heben, J.L. Alleman, W. VanDerveer, T. Gennett, “Development and characterization of single wall carbon nanotube–Nafion composite actuators,” Materials Science and Engineering B, 116( 3), 359–362, 2005.
  3. A.C. Dillon, P.A. Parilla, J.L. Alleman, T. Gennett, K.M. Jones, and M.J. Heben, "Systematic Inclusion of Defects in Pure Carbon Single-wall Nanotubes and Their Effect on the Raman D-band," Chem. Phys. Lett. 401, 522–28, 2005.
  4. R.S. Morris, B.G. Dixon, M.J. Heben, R. Raffaelle, T. Gennett, "High-Energy, Rechargeable Li-ion Battery Based on Carbon Nanotube Technology," J. Power Sources, 138 (1-2), 277–280, 2004.
  5. Ping Liu, Se-Hee Lee, Yanfa Yan, Thomas Gennett, Brian J. Landi, and Michael J. Heben, “Electrochemical Transformation of Single Wall Carbon Nanotube/Nafion Composites,” Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 7(11) A421–A424, 2004.

NREL Publications

View NREL publications for this staff member.

Other Team Members

Jeffrey L. Blackburn

Calvin (Buzz) Curtis

Rohit V. Deshpande

Anne C. Dillon

Chaiwat Engtrakul

Tom Gennett

Kelly Knutsen

Timothy McDonald

Alex Miedaner

Philip A. Parilla

Lin Simpson

Robert C. Tenent

Erin S. Whitney