Adams featured as great mind of Houston

Adams featured as great mind of Houston

Wade Adams, director of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, is featured in the August issue of Houston’s PaperCity magazine for his contributions to nanotechnology.

WADE ADAMS

He is one of three local experts profiled in the article “Great Minds in our Midst.”

Adams had a career with the United States Air Force until 2002, when the late Richard Smalley tapped him to work at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology.

As director of the Smalley Institute, Adams coordinates Rice’s ambitious, interdisciplinary program for the advancement of nanotechnologies.

”I help large-scale collaborations happen among the faculty in many different areas,” Adams told PaperCity. ”Rice University is the No. 1 institution for publications and patents [in single-walled nanotubes] … We have to work hard, keep the funding in; otherwise we run the risk of falling behind. That’s not something you want to do in this field.”

Adams said Houston will remain the energy capital of the world in the next century if Americans embrace nanotechnology.