CNM Successfully Concludes Fifth Annual User Meeting: May 7-9, 2008

Nobel Laureate Rudolph Marcus (Caltech), featured speaker at the CNM Plenary Session, and Tijana Rajh (CNM Nanobio Group Leader) at the CNM poster session and reception

The opening plenary and science sessions on Wednesday morning were organized and chaired by the CNM Users Executive Committee Chair, Paul Evans (University of Wisconsin-Madison) at Argonne National Laboratory. After a hearty welcome by Al Sattelberger, Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences and Engineering, a unique view of the basic energy sciences landscape for energy research was provided by Eric Rohlfing, Associate Director of Science for Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy (Acting), and Director of Chemical Sciences Geosciences and Biosciences Division.

The scientific talks were then presented by researchers spanning the gamut of experience, from Nobel Laureate Rudolph Marcus (Caltech) to the invited student poster talk winner, Pao Tai Lin (Northwestern). Prof. Marcus provided a summary of his work on single-molecule studies from quantum dots to proteins, Dmitri Talapin (University of Chicago) spoke on the self-assembly and conductivity of nanocrystal solids, and Lin addressed thermally tunable ferroelectric thin-film photonic crystals, a user project with the Nanofabrication Group of CNM and his advisor Bruce Wessels.

Evans announced the newly elected members of the CNM User Organization Users Executive Committee, Yi Ji (University of Delaware) and Gregory Wurtz (University of North Florida). (More...)

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