Baratunde A. Cola
American nanotechnologist
Baratunde A. Cola (born March 17, 1981) is a scientist and engineer specializing in carbon nanotube technology.
Education
Cola was born in Detroit, Michigan but was raised and schooled in Pensacola, Florida. He attended Vanderbilt University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering in 2002 and a Master of Science in mechanical engineering degree in 2004. While an undergraduate he was also starting fullback for the Vanderbilt Commodores football team.
After Vanderbilt Cola took his PhD, awarded in 2008, in mechanical engineering at Purdue University under the supervision of Dr. Timothy Fisher.
Research areas
Cola was involved in the founding of the NanoEngineered Systems and Transport Lab and Heat Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is an associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering. For 2015–6 he was a Martin Luther King Jr. visiting professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Specializing in carbon nanotube technology, Cola led the team who demonstrated the first optical rectenna.
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