For such a little technology, Nano packs a big punch

Emily M. Smith
ASME NEWS

Nanotechnology is a big topic with an expansive reach, which explains why ASME's Congress 2004 is featuring so many technical sessions on the subject.

When ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition gets underway in November, registrants will be attending dozens of nanotechnology sessions over a three-day period from Nov. 15-17 in Anaheim, Calif.

The Nanotechnology track will begin with a General Session that will include presentations on "Thermionic Emission Energy Distributions from Nanostructured Carbon Composite" and "A Feedback Controlled Carbon Nanotube Based NEMS Device: Concept and Modeling." The General Session will take place Monday, Nov. 15, from 11:15 a.m. until 12:45 p.m.

That session will be followed by "Modeling and Experimental Validation of Nanotechnology," which will offer several technical presentations on topics such as "Self-Assembly of Nanovoids in Solids," "Thermal Contact Conductance Enhancement with Carbon Nanotube Arrays," and "Clumping and Packing of Hair Arrays Manufactured by Nanocasting." Those presentations are scheduled to take place from 2 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Nov. 15.

A session on "Engineering and Analysis of Novel Nano Building Blocks: Quantum Dots, Molecules, DNA, Particles, etc." will offer five presentations on Tuesday, Nov. 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Six more presentations will follow later in the day. They will be offered from 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 pm. Topics to be covered include "Guided Assembly of Controlled and Ordered Patterns of Ferromagnetic Nanostructures" and "Direct Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Silicon Nanowires."

Other sessions featuring nanotechnology will be available throughout Congress. To search for information on these sessions, visit www.asme.org/congress04/searchpaperschedule.cfm.
For more information about Congress and registering, visit www.asme.org/congress.

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