Nanomanufacturing Ray Baughman, University of Texas at Dallas Ray Baughman recently became the Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and Director of NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas in Dallas. Until August 2001, he was Corporate Fellow of Honeywell International (formerly AlliedSignal), where he worked after completing a Ph.D. in the materials science area at Harvard University in 1970. Baughman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Chemists, and an Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. In China, Ray is Honorary Professor of Jilin University, Concurrent Professor of Nanjing University, and Advisory Professor of Fudan University. Baughman has 52 US patents and 193 publications (with over 6300 citations). He received the Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists and the Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering (American Chemical Society). In addition, he received major AlliedSignal Technical Achievement Awards For Outstanding Contributions to in the Fields of (a) Time-Temperature Indicators (1988), (b) Polyaniline Compositions and Applications (1994), and (c) Sonar Hydrophones (1996). Baughman is on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science, the Editorial Boards of Synthetic Metals and the International Journal of Nanoscience, and various advisory boards in the United States, Europe, Australia, and China. His R&D activities are on nanotechnology; photonic crystals; sensors and actuators; ferroelectrics; novel forms of carbon; conducting polymers; solid-state reactions; electrochemical processes and devices; materials with unusual mechanical properties; and the design, synthesis, and application of materials with novel electrical, optical, or magnetic properties.