Nano Highlights 2006 NSF NSE Conference (in progress)

NIRT

• Nanoscale Engineering and Manufacture Effected Through Molecular Architecture and Structure - Michigan State University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California Santa Barbara, and Sandia National Laboratories
• Total Chemical Synthesis, Modeling and Property Study of Nanoparticle/Polymer Hybrid Materials - North Dakota State University and University of Central Florida
• Multimodal Qdot based nanoprobe for real time noninvasive bioimaging - University of Florida and University of Central Florida
• Aerogels and Related Nanoporous Materials for Biological Membranes - UC Davis and Stanford University
• Photovoltaic Devices Based on Nanoparticles and Nanowires - University of Minnesota
• Clusters to Nanoparticles: Implications for Atmospheric Nucleation - University of Minnesota and National Center for Atmospheric Research
• Collective Computation with Self Assembled Quantum Dots, Nanowires and Nanodiodes: A Novel Paradigm for Nanoelectronics - Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and UCLA
• Shadowing Growth of Uniform 3D Nanostructures - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Fundamental Study of Bulk Magnesium Alloy Matrix Nanocomposites Fabricated by Ultrasonic Cavitation Based Solidification Processing - University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of California Davis and Georgia Institute of Technology
• Thermal and Thermoelectric Properties of Individual Nanostructures - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston College Demonstration of p-type doping in ZnO nanowires -University of California, San Diego
• Directed self-assembly of polymers and nanotubes into air-suspended bridges - University Louisville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University Massachusetts Amherst
• Design of Biocompatible Nanoparticles for Probing Living Cellular Functions and their Potential Environmental Impacts - Old Dominion University, CEA in France and Northwestern University
• Nanomasking with Nanoparticle Arrays - Carnegie Mellon University
• Thermally Actuated Untethered Impact-Driven Locomotive Micro-Devices - University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University
• Quantum Integrated Circuit Finds One-in-a-Billion Atom Defect - University of California Santa Barbara
• Carbon Nanotubes: Active in situ Sensing of Strain and Damage in Advanced Composite Materials - University of Delaware, Boston College and Northwestern University

NSEC

• Polymer Nanoengineering: Advances for Drug and Gene Delivery - Ohio State University
• Developing Digital Resources for Education - University of Pennsylvania
• Entropic Forces in Single-Biomolecule Mechanics - University of Pennsylvania
• Template Directed Assembly of Nanoscale Elements for High-rate Nanomanufacturing of Devices and Sensors - Northeastern University, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell and University of New Hampshire
• Functional Organic Nanostructures Engineered using Beta-Peptides - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Toward Design Rules for Conduction in Single Molecules - Columbia University
• Tailoring the Glass Transition Temperature of Polymer Nanocomposites - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Other

• Nanomaterials Application Center Established - Texas State University San Marcos
• Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry - USDA Forest Service, Sappi Fine Paper North America, The American Forest and Paper Association - Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance