Rishi Kumar

As we eagerly await the Presidential election, Californians will also need to sift through seventeen ballot measures on election day. This year, fifteen measures were put on the November ballot by citizens through signature petitions and two were introduced by the legislature.

The metal-catalyzed chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of graphene is one of the most important techniques to produce high quality and large area graphene films. Apart from outstanding electronic and optoelectronic properties of the metal-catalyzed CVD grown graphene, its wetting behavior also possesses great potentials to be exploited for various applications such as water harvesting, micro-nano fluidics, triboelectricity generation, electrowetting, oil-water separation, biomimetics, etc.

It wasn’t Alaska’s close proximity to Russia or my desire for foreign policy experience, or to check up on former Governor Sarah Palin that I chose Alaska as our vacation destination. Perhaps it was Shah Rukh Khan, working on a NASA project in the cool confines of his Recreational Vehicle (RV) in the heart of rural India, and the popularity of Alaska as an RV destination that tipped me towards the idea. My wife and I weighed an Alaskan RV tour against the package cruise.