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Ajayan is a film director. In 1990 he directed the Malayalam movie Perumthachan, which has won rare accolades from the film community across the world. He started his career as a camera assistant and worked as an associate director. He has also worked as a cinematographer for some Tamil films and directed many documentaries. His directing credits includes Ente Upasana ("My Fast") in 1984 (assistant director) and Sughamodevi in 1986 (assistant director). The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Malayalam (മലയാളം) is the major language of the state of Kerala, in southern India. ... Perumthachan also spelled as Perunthachan meaning (the master carpenter or the master craftsman) is a honorific title that is used to refer to an ancient legendary carpenter, architect, woodcarver and sculptor from Kerala, South India. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... A camera is a device used to take pictures (usually photographs), either singly or in sequence, with or without sound, such as with video cameras. ... A cinematographer (from cinema photographer) is one photographing with a motion picture camera. ... Tamil girls in Tiruvannamalai The Tamil people are an ethnic group from South Asia with a recorded history going back almost two millennia. ... Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ...

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Ajayan and a team of researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of Florida subjected films of vertically aligned nanotubes to a battery of tests, demonstrating their impressive strength and resilience.
Ajayan at Rensselaer and a team of researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of Florida subjected films of vertically aligned nanotubes to a battery of tests, demonstrating their impressive strength and resilience.
Ajayan and researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa previously developed tiny brushes with bristles made from carbon nanotubes, which could be used for tasks that range from cleaning microscopic surfaces to serving as electrical contacts.
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Ajayan and Ramanath have combined formerly disparate areas of research to grow and direct the assembly of nanotubes.
Ajayan and researchers in Germany, Mexico, the U.K., and Belgium used irradiation and heat to form the welded junctions.
Ajayan believes that the inherent structure of boron carbide, which has icosahedral units in the unit cell, allows the crystals to grow to micron size without the strain.
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