Padmavati Chitrapu completed her M. S. in 1989; John Tsamopoulos was her co-advisor. Padma developed a model for the catalytic growth of carbon filaments for her M. S. Thesis.

“A Model for the Catalytic Growth of Carbon Filaments,” Chitrapu, P., Lund, C. R. F., and Tsamopoulos, J. A., Carbon 30, 285 (1992). [more info]

Padmavati Chitrapu, “A Model for the Catalytic Growth of Carbon Filaments,” M. S. Thesis, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Dept. of Chemical Engineering (1989). [more info]