Speakers lined up for summer Nano Bootcamp

Emily M. Smith
ASME NEWS

ASME is organizing the Nano Training Bootcamp — the first of its kind in the nano industry — to offer participants a foothold in nanoscale science and engineering by reviewing the field's rudimentary concepts.

The bootcamp is scheduled to take place July 8-11 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., which is well-known for its nanotechnology research environment. The four-day event will offer participants a detailed, tutorial-based account of advances in nanoscience in a wide variety of nano fields, as well as prospects for translating these advances into useful nanotechnologies.

Session leaders include Chang Liu, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses covering the areas of MEMS, solid state electronics and heat transfer. A lecturer at the bootcamp, he will discuss basic aspects of interests concerning microfluid devices and systems.

Liu will review fundamental concepts first, followed by discussions of representative work in major categories of components, including chemical reactors, flow sensors, pumps, valves and more.

Teri W. Odom, an assistant professor of chemistry at Northwestern, will talk about nanoparticles and nanowires. She will focus on several important aspects of nano-
crystals, nanotubes and nanowires, including: their synthesis and characterization, their manipulation and assembly into architectures for nanoscale devices, and their application in nanoelectronics, photonics and sensor technologies.

Mark Ratner will give the plenary lecture. The Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, his work has centered on issues of mechanism and structure in chemistry, particularly on phenomena such as ionic transport, electronic transport, exciton transport and structure/ function relations in molecular materials.

His bootcamp presentation will focus on the fundamental differences between charge flow and isolated molecules in charge flow in molecular nanostructures. This will include a description of the problem, description of approaches to solving it and extensive discussion of the nature of the metal/molecular interface, how it can be controlled, and how it modulates transport in molecular junction conductance.

Sam Stupp of Northwestern will discuss materials chemistry, a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field that aims to achieve the molecular design of materials with specific properties and complex functions.

He will talk about self-assembling dendritic molecules that profoundly change the properties of polymers, and templated syntheses of nano-structured semiconductors.

The applications to be discussed include toughening of polymers, nanoconductor and nanomagnet templating, ultraviolet laser fabrication, and regeneration of the central nervous system.

For the bootcamp's complete session program, or to register online, visit http://www.asme.org/nano/ bootcamp/register.html.

Nano Bootcamp registration for students is $595 and $1,595 for members of ASME, other nonprofits, academia and government. Registration for all others is $1,995.

 

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