Program

Thursday, November 20, 2008
7:45am - 6:45pm

Grand Ballroom
Hotel Orrington
1710 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60201
Tel (847) 866-8700
Fax (847) 866-8724

Opening      
 


7:45 - 8:30


8:30 - 8:45



8:45 - 8:55
(plus 5 min. for questions)



Registration & Continental Breakfast



Chad A. Mirkin
, IIN Director
Welcome & Introduction
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Congressman Daniel Lipinski, 3rd District, IL

Nanotechnology in the US Congress - Update on the National Nanotechnology Initiative
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Plenary Session
Sponsor: gwSaar
Chair: Teri Odom

 

 
 



9:00 - 9:40

(plus 15 min. for questions)

 

 

 



Alan Heegar

2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Professor of Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara

Low Cost Plastic Solar Cells: Self-Assembly of Bulk Heterojunction Materials by Spontaneous Phase Separation

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Session II - NanoElectronics
Sponsor: Husch, Blackwell, Sanders, Welsh, and Katz
Chair: Mark Hersam
 

 

 




9:55 - 10:25
(plus 10 min. for questions)





Paul McEuen

Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics
Cornell University

Nano Carbon - from Ballistic Transistors to Atomic Drumheads

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10:55 - 11:25

(plus 10 min. for questions)

 




Donald Eigler

Physicist and IBM Fellow
IBM Almaden Research Center

The Quest for Spin-Cascade Logic Circuits

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Luncheon Break

 

  11:35 - 1:00
Session III - Molecular Nanotechnology
Sponsor: NanoInk, Inc.
Chair: Mark Ratner

 






1:00 - 1:30

(plus 10 min. for questions)






J. Fraser Stoddart

Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry
Northwestern University

Mechanized Nanoparticles

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1:40 - 2:10
(plus 10 min. for questions)



Julius Rebek, Jr.
Professor & Director
Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
The Scripps Research Institute

Expandable Capsules

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Session IV - NanoOptics & NanoMaterials
Sponsor: NU NSEC and NU CCNE
Chair: Lincoln Lauhon
 

 



2:0 - 3:10
(plus 10 min. for questions)





Lars Samuelson
Professor, Semiconductor Electronics
Director, Nanometer Structure Consortium
Lund University, Sweden

Self-Assembling Nanowires in Electronics, Photonics, and Life Sciences

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3:20 - 3:50

(plus 10 min. for questions)

 




Jeffrey Moore
Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Self-healing Polymers

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4:00 - 4:30

(plus 10 min. for questions)




Cherry Murray

Principal Associate Director
Science & Technology
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nano Science and Technology for Fusion

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4:45 - 6:00





Reception

 
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