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WEEKLY MEMO: 05.03.10
by Deborah Starewich 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

To ensure you receive your BNC Weekly Memo e-mails, please add bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu to your address book. Current issue is at http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/mondaymemo.html The BNC Monday MemoBNC News week of May 3, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS BNC Preventive Maintenance Shutdown: Sunday, 05.02.10, 10PM, to Friday, 05.07.10, 3PM. PLEASE POWER DOWN YOUR COMPUTERS BEFORE LEAVING ON FRIDAY, 04.30.10. ERRATA HONORABLE MENTION POSTER for the Annual Review should have been reported as "Nitride Metal/Semiconductor Superlattices for High-Temperature Solid-State Energy Conversion," by Polina V. Burmistrova, David Ewoldt, Jeremy L. Schroeder, Robert Wortman, and Timothy D. Sands. We apologize for the error. It's warming up! With the outside temperatures warming up for Spring and Summer, please remember that long pants and closed-toe shoes are required whenever working in the Birck Nanotechnology Labs (this includes general labs and the galleys). Thank you for your cooperation. Ron Reger Process & Equipment Manager Do you place orders? items listed below should be provided at the time the purchase requisition is submitted: • Purchase request • Quote • PI approval – if the approval is via e-mail the body of the e-mail must state: • Item being purchased • Quantity of each item being purchased • Either Unit price of each item • Vendor • Account Number being charged For auditing purposes this information is needed in the body of the e-mail even if documents are attached. Auditors would be unable to confirm what the attached document contained and could disallow the expense. Amy Eberhard Account Assistant Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center P: (765) 494-1539 F: (765) 496-8383 aeberhard(a)purdue.edu FACULTY NEWS KUDOS! DIMITRI PEROULIS was honored with a 2010 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, in Memory of Charles B. Murphy at the Celebration of Teaching Excellence on April 27. Four other exceptional teachers were also honored. JAY GORE and SURESH GARIMELLA , both professors of mechanical engineering, were named Jefferson Science Fellows. STEPHEN BEAUDOIN , chemical engineering, has been named a Provost Fellow. JOSEPH IRUDAYARAJ , agricultural and biological engineering, WILLIAM CHAPPELL , electrical and computer engineering, and GARTH SIMPSON , chemistry, have been named Faculty Scholars, 2010-15. Read more in INSIDE PURDUE SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information DISCONTINUED: weekly literature club meetings, originally scheduled for Fridays at Noon in BRK 1001, have been cancelled until further notice. UPCOMING FREE virtual event: FRONTIERS OF CHEMISTRY: FROM MOLECULES TO SYSTEMS Symposium on 05.21.10 in Paris. Ten renowned speakers. Four Nobel laureates. One day in Paris. View it from your Desktop. FREE. Wiley/Wiley-VCH and ChemPubSoc Europe announce Frontiers of Chemistry, a one-day event in Paris in celebration of 10 years of the journals ChemBioChem and ChemPhysChem on May 21. Featuring no less than four Nobel laureates, it will be held in Paris, and simultaneously webcasted in a virtual event environment. The virtual event is free to attend, but you are required to register here . [ MORE ] Symposium on Cardiovascular Pathology: Thursday, 05.27.10, 1:00-4:30PM, LYNN 1136 [ Flier ] EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Microfabrication Engineer sought by Retinal Implant group to work at CNF in Ithaca, NY Imagine working on a project that will create a device to restore useful vision to patients who are blind. The Retinal Implant Project is a multi-disciplinary collaboration, over 20 years old, that seeks to build just such a prosthesis. We are a team of over 25 engineers, scientists, and medical professionals based in Boston, MA and Ithaca, NY with a long history of successful grant funding from a variety of sources. [ More ] PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS Faculty, staff, and students who have fever or other influenza symptoms should seek medical care. PLEASE DO NOT REPORT TO WORK WHILE ILL. Birck Nanotechnology Center staff will be notified of an emergency situation by telephone in the order set out in the BNC’s Phone Tree. BNC faculty members will receive an e-mail message from Monica Allain or Jim Cooper. Members of the Faculty (Professors and Research Professors) are responsible for contacting each of their group members, including graduate students, undergraduate researchers, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists. Specific instructions should be conveyed by phone if possible. All graduate students should register for the Purdue University e-mail alert system at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/mail.html . Additional information for pandemic and emergency preparation may be found at www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/faculty and http://www.purdue.edu/emergency_preparedness Editorial policy set: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [ More ] Submit items for memo of the week of May 10, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 05.07.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi(a)purdue.edu

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Reminder FREE WORKSHOP on MONDAY-How and when to write an Invention Disclosure!
by Schwartz, Melissa J 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Confused about how and when to write an invention Disclosure? Monday April 26, 2010 > Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship End the confusion and Register Today for our free workshop at nano.purdue.edu/bootcamp.php Eyah Barash, the Chief Intellectual Property counsel to Endocyte, a drug-discovery company based in Purdue's Research Park, will provide information on patents & company development and Karen White, Assistant Director with the Office of Technology Commercialization, will provide information on filing IP disclosures, patents, and licensing. SPACE IS LIMITED----REGISTER TODAY! Please distribute in your area.

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BNC Weekly Memo - April 26, 2010
by Jeff Goecker 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

To ensure you receive your BNC Weekly Memo e-mails, please add bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu to your address book. Current issue is at http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/mondaymemo.html BNC News week of April 26, 2010 ________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS BNC Preventive Maintenance Shutdown: Sunday, 05.02.10, 10PM, to Friday, 05.07.10, 3PM. PLEASE POWER DOWN YOUR COMPUTERS BEFORE LEAVING ON FRIDAY, 04.30.10. The BNC will be shut down during the week of May 2 for preventive and corrective maintenance activities. This shutdown will be more extensive than previous shutdowns – major electrical work will take place that will shut down electrical power to the building during the early morning hours of May 3. It is expected that this work will be complete prior to 8:00 AM on Monday, May 3. Please note that the cleanroom and the building exhaust systems will be down for the entire week. No chemicals or hazardous gases may be used during this period. [Tentative Schedule] Call for Papers: 18th Annual International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering (ICCE), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, July 4-10, 2010 ICCE-18 is still accepting NEW paper titles at ICCE-18 Anchorage, so please inform interested professors, researchers, especially students, and junior faculty members, who need visibilities to present papers. Interested authors should submit tentative paper title immediately, and then submit detailed two page short papers to David Hui, each page has two column format, and short papers must have graphs to show results. See here for details. ________________________________ KUDOS To Sean Scott, winner of the Annual Research Review Poster Competition and a $300 award. Sean's poster was titled, "A Capacitively - Loaded Mems Slot Element for Wireless Temperature Sensing of up to 300 --- Sean Scott/Dimitrios Peroulis." Honorable Mention went to "Nitride Metal Semi Conductor Superlattices for High temperature Solid State- Energy Conversion -- David Ewoldt, Robert Wortman, Tom Sands and Jeremy Schroeder." Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's competition. ________________________________ SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Monday April 26, 2010, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship: Confused about how and when to write an invention Disclosure? End the confusion and Register Today for our free workshop at nano.purdue.edu/bootcamp.php Eyah Barash, the Chief Intellectual Property counsel to Endocyte, a drug-discovery company based in Purdue’s Research Park, will provide information on patents & company development and Karen White, Assistant Director with the Office of Technology Commercialization, will provide information on filing IP disclosures, patents, and licensing. SPACE IS LIMITED----REGISTER TODAY! CANCELED - Wednesday, 04.28.10, 3:00PM, MRGN 129: "Are relations P=hk and E=mc2 simultaneously compatible with principle of wave-particle duality?" Victor Veselago, AM Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Tuesday, 05.11.10: LabVIEW Seminars Register now for the National Instruments LabVIEW Hands-On and Embedded Design Hands-On Seminars in Lafayette on Tuesday, May 11th. Introduction to LabVIEW and Computer-Based Measurements Hands-On Seminar - 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Embedded Design Using LabVIEW Real-Time & FPGA Hands-On Seminar - 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. [More] Monday & Tuesday, 5.24-25.10, STEW 218: "Frontiers in Bioenergy Symposium" Keynote Speaker: Bruce Dale, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University Other speakers include Billy Glover, Boeing Commercial Airplanes; Edward Lyford-Pike, Cummins; Mike Himmel, National Renewal Energy Laboratory; Hans Blaschek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robert Brown, Iowa State University; Jim Dumesic, Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformation The 5th Annual Symposium at Purdue University will cover an overview of the agronomic, fuel infrastructure and economic context of biofuels production, and focus on second-generation and third-generation (drop-in) advanced biofuels from biological and chemical/thermal conversion pathways. The meeting is hosted jointly by two recently funded DOE-Office of Science “Energy Frontier Research Centers” (C3Bio and IACT) and sponsored by Purdue University. Registration is required: www.conf.purdue.edu/bioenergy Questions, contact Luanne Ludwig @ lml(a)purdue.edu (765-494-2276) ________________________________ PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS Faculty, staff, and students who have fever or other influenza symptoms should seek medical care. PLEASE DO NOT REPORT TO WORK WHILE ILL. Birck Nanotechnology Center staff will be notified of an emergency situation by telephone in the order set out in the BNC’s Phone Tree. BNC faculty members will receive an e-mail message from Monica Allain or Tim Sands. Members of the Faculty (Professors and Research Professors) are responsible for contacting each of their group members, including graduate students, undergraduate researchers, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists. Specific instructions should be conveyed by phone if possible. All graduate students should register for the Purdue University e-mail alert system at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/mail.html. Additional information for pandemic and emergency preparation may be found at www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/faculty and http://www.purdue.edu/emergency_preparedness ________________________________ Editorial policy set: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [More] Submit items for memo of the week of May 3, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 04.30.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi(a)purdue.edu ________________________________ Other BNC info: Purdue Home Page BNC Home Page BNC Users Forum Links to Discovery Park Centers Bindley Bioscience Center Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Cyber Center Discovery Learning Research Center Global Sustainability at Purdue: Center for Environment >Energy > Center >Purdue > Climate Change Research Center Oncological Sciences Center Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Sign up to be: Media Expert Community Speaker Nothing selected

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BNC Shutdown May 2-7 **IMPORTANT**
by Weaver, John R 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Please see the attached schedule for the BNC shutdown, which will begin Sunday evening May 2. Important action items: * Shut down all computers (office, lab, cleanroom) and sensitive equipment prior to midnight Sunday. * Ensure that you have no hazardous chemicals in any hoods, and that any bottled hazardous chemicals are sealed and placed in chemical cabinets. This must be completed by 10:00 PM Sunday. * See the attached schedule for facility availability and Coral for equipment availability. Thank you for your cooperation during this important maintenance shutdown. John John R. Weaver Facility Manager Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University (765) 494-5494 jrweaver(a)purdue.edu

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Weekly Memo 041910 -- DON'T FORGET THE ANNUAL REVIEW, MONDAY 04.19 :)
by Deborah Starewich 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

To ensure you receive your BNC Weekly Memo e-mails, please add bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu to your address book. Current issue is at http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/mondaymemo.html The BNC Monday Memo BNC News week of April 19, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS 4th Annual BNC Research Review Monday, April 19, 2010, 9:30-4:30 MRGN 121 and Birck The annual Birck Research Review is an opportunity to showcase your research to students, colleagues, and visitors from industry, academia, and government. The review also provides an excellent opportunity for your students to gain and develop presentation skills. [ More ] BNC Preventive Maintenance Shutdown: Sunday, 05.02.10, 10PM, to Friday, 05.07.10, 3PM. Six-week notice. The BNC will be shut down during the week of May 2 for preventive and corrective maintenance activities. This shutdown will be more extensive than previous shutdowns – major electrical work will take place that will shut down electrical power to the building during the early morning hours of May 3. It is expected that this work will be complete prior to 8:00 AM on Monday, May 3. Please note that the cleanroom and the building exhaust systems will be down for the entire week. No chemicals or hazardous gases may be used during this period. [ Tentative Schedule ] Possible Vibration at BNC Work is commencing on the enclosure for the Acid-Waste Neutralization (AWN) system. While the impact on any operations at BNC should be minimal, there will be some activities early in the project that could cause some vibration. This activity will take place at the southwest corner of the BNC. This work will be done on concrete that is not connected to the BNC – any vibration would be transmitted through the ground. The closest vibration-sensitive equipment is the Vistec e-beam writer, about 35 feet away. Next would be the Titan TEM and the Raith e-beam, both about 175 feet away. Weather permitting, the work will begin next Thursday, 22 April 2010, and last until the following Wednesday, 28 April 2010. Most of the activities will involve saw cutting, which should have no vibration impact. In some cases, however, a jackhammer will be used, and in all cases a backhoe and/or front loader will be used for the concrete removal. A more detailed schedule follows. Work will take place from 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM weekdays. No work will take place on weekends. Please contact Mark Voorhis if you experience any vibration-related issues. Thank you for your understanding during this necessary construction effort. Recycling The facilities staff has placed recycling bins at the end of each wing inside the galleys. Since it is the end of the semester and some of you are cleaning your offices, we are placing them there for your convenience. Please let us know if you have filled any of them and we will get it replaced as soon as possible. These will be going back to Purdue Recycling in a couple of weeks. If you have any confidential recycling, we can get you a confidential recycling bin. Contact Mary Jo Totten or Se'Andra Donaldson for assistance. GRADUATE STUDENTS FINAL CALL: Ambassador Program leaders needed! If you are interested in earning a travel grant up to $500, please contact Deborah Starewich BY FRIDAY, 04.23.10 to set a brief [15- to 30-minute] with Dr. Monica Allain, our Managing Director. [ Program Description ] [ Call Out Presentation ] SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Monday, 04.19.10, 3:00PM, MRGN 129 : "Radiation nanofocusing using tapered metal gaps," by Sergey Bozhevolnyi, Institute of Sensors, Signals and Electrotechnics (SENSE), University of Southern Denmark [ More ] Reverse Osmosis Week Seminars included in this event: RO Operation and Maintenance : Apr 19, 2010; BRK 2001 RO Monitoring & Troubleshooting : Apr 20, 2010; BRK 1001 Interpreting Water Analyses : Apr 21, 2010; BRK 1001 Expert Troubleshooting of Membrane Systems : Apr 22, 2010; BRK 1001 Expert Biofouling Control : Apr 23, 2010; BRK 1001 [ More ] UPCOMING Wednesday, 04.28.10, 3:30PM, MRGN 129: "Are relations P=hk and E=mc2 simultaneously compatible with principle of wave-particle duality?" by Victor Veselago, A.M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. [ More ] Wednesday, 06.09, and Thursday, 06.10.10, Fourth Advanced Materials Characterization Workshop. This workshop will provide a critical, comparative, and condensed overview of mainstream analytical techniques for materials characterization with emphasis on practical applications. [ flier ] FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Request for Proposals: Ford College Community Challenge, Ford Motor Company Fund. The Ford Motor Company Fund is reaching out to colleges and universities to request proposals for a third round of an innovative grant-making initiative: The Ford College Community Challenge (Ford C3). This one-time special program seeks to work with partner higher education organizations to catalyze community-building projects that address pressing local needs. [ RFP ] LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE 6th Annual FAMILY CAREGIVER FAIR: Wednesday, 05.12.10, 11:00AM to 1:00M, Purdue Memorial Union South Ballroom. [ flier ] PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS Faculty, staff, and students who have fever or other influenza symptoms should seek medical care. PLEASE DO NOT REPORT TO WORK WHILE ILL. Birck Nanotechnology Center staff will be notified of an emergency situation by telephone in the order set out in the BNC’s Phone Tree. BNC faculty members will receive an e-mail message from Monica Allain or Tim Sands. Members of the Faculty (Professors and Research Professors) are responsible for contacting each of their group members, including graduate students, undergraduate researchers, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists. Specific instructions should be conveyed by phone if possible. All graduate students should register for the Purdue University e-mail alert system at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/mail.html . Additional information for pandemic and emergency preparation may be found at www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/faculty and http://www.purdue.edu/emergency_preparedness Editorial policy set: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [ More ] Submit items for memo of the week of April 26, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 04.23.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi(a)purdue.edu Other BNC info: Purdue Home Page BNC Home Page BNC Users Forum Links to Discovery Park Centers Bindley Bioscience Center Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Cyber Center Discovery Learning Research Center Global Sustainability at Purdue: Center for Environment Energy Center Purdue Climate Change Research Center Oncological Sciences Center Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Sign up to be: Media Expert Community Speaker

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Possible Vibration at BNC
by Weaver, John R 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Work is commencing on the enclosure for the Acid-Waste Neutralization (AWN) system. While the impact on any operations at BNC should be minimal, there will be some activities early in the project that could cause some vibration. This activity will take place at the southwest corner of the BNC. This work will be done on concrete that is not connected to the BNC - any vibration would be transmitted through the ground. The closest vibration-sensitive equipment is the Vistec e-beam writer, about 35 feet away. Next would be the Titan TEM and the Raith e-beam, both about 175 feet away. Weather permitting, the work will begin next Thursday, 22 April 2010, and last until the following Wednesday, 28 April 2010. Most of the activities will involve saw cutting, which should have no vibration impact. In some cases, however, a jackhammer will be used, and in all cases a backhoe and/or front loader will be used for the concrete removal. A more detailed schedule follows. Work will take place from 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM weekdays. No work will take place on weekends. Please contact Mark Voorhis if you experience any vibration-related issues. Thank you for your understanding during this necessary construction effort. Mark Voorhis John Weaver Mark Voorhis John R. Weaver Building Manager Facility Manager Birck Nanotechnology Center Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University Purdue University (765) 494-3036 (765) 494-5494 mvoorhis(a)purdue.edu<mailto:mvoorhis@purdue.edu> jrweaver(a)purdue.edu Date Time Vibration Activity Thursday, April 22, 2010 7:30AM - 3:30PM Saw cutting concrete Friday, April 23, 2010 7:30AM - 3:30PM Excavating cut concrete Monday, April 26, 2010 7:30AM - 3:30PM Excavating cut concrete & excavating dirt Tuesday, April 27, 2010 7:30AM - 3:30PM Excavating dirt & set forms, hammer drill existing concrete for rebar Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:30AM - 3:30PM Pour & vibrate concrete Future Work Wednesday, May 26, 2010 7:30AM - 3:30PM Crane operation to set building steel - using pneumatic impact wrenches Thursday, May 27, 2010 7:30AM - 3:30PM Crane operation to set building steel - using pneumatic impact wrenches Friday, May 28, 2010 7:30AM - 3:30PM Crane operation to set building steel - using pneumatic impact wrenches Monday, May 31, 2010 7:30AM - 3:30PM Crane operation to set building steel - using pneumatic impact wrenches Tuesday, June 01, 2010 7:30AM - 3:30PM Crane operation to set building steel - using pneumatic impact wrenches

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Free food in Birck Kitchen NOW
by Caitlin Burger 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Come get some FREE FOOD NOW in the Birck Kitchen!!! Thanks!!! Caitlin Burger Graduate Student Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University Materials Science and Engineering cbburger(a)purdue.edu (765) 494-0215

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Parking disruptions for HDLR dedication, Friday 4/16
by Totten, Mary J 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

From: Boland, Stephanie E Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:20 AM Subject: Parking disruptions for HDLR dedication, Friday 4/16 Communications Announcement Purdue University - Physical Facilities TO: Building Deputies [Please distribute.] FR: University Parking DA: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 RE: Parking disruptions for HDLR dedication, Friday 4/16 The following parking areas will be unavailable the afternoon of Friday, April 16, 2010 for the Hall for Discovery and Learning Research dedication ceremony. * The entire row of parking spots on the south side of the Purdue Police Department "A" lot. * The entire "A/B" lot on Gates Road, on the west side of HDLR. * Several street parking spots on S. Martin Jischke Drive east of HDLR. Additional guests will park in the Discovery Park Lot on the south side of Nimitz Dr. The dedication ceremony is scheduled for 2 - 3:30 p.m. at the new Hall for Discovery and Learning Research located at the corner of S. Martin Jischke Dr. and Nimitz Dr. Please watch for increased traffic in this area on Friday afternoon. A map of the area is available here: http://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/travel/pdf/hdlr.pdf For questions or concerns, please contact Holly Alexander at 49-49315 or haalexander(a)purdue.edu<mailto:haalexander@purdue.edu>

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Recycling
by Totten, Mary J 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Hello Everyone, We have placed recycling bins at the end of each wing inside the galleys. Since it is the end of the semester and some of you are cleaning your offices, we are placing them there for your convenience. Please let us know if you have filled any of them and we will get it replaced as soon as possible. These will be going back to Purdue Recycling in a couple of weeks. Please let us know if you have any confidential recycling. We can obtain one for you if needed. Thank you, Mary Jo Totten Building Logistics Coordinator Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University/Discovery Park 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 765-496-1173

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WEEKLY MEMO: 04.12.10
by Deborah Starewich 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

To ensure you receive your BNC Weekly Memo e-mails, please add bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu to your address book. Current issue is at http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/mondaymemo.html The BNC Monday Memo BNC News week of April 12, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS 2010 BIRCK ANNUAL REVIEW: MONDAY, 04.19.10, 9:30 TO 4:30, MRGN 121; WITH POSTER SESSION IN THE BIRCK ATRIUM The BNC Annual Research Review provides an opportunity for you to engage with top faculty, research engineers, and graduating students, whose discoveries in nanotechnology address societal challenges and opportunities in computing, communications, the environment, security, energy independence and health. This year’s review will include: • 5 dynamic faculty presentations: Profs. Eric Stach, Ale Strachan, Jenna Rickus, Robert Moon, and Dimitri Peroulis; • A poster session highlighting our research engineers, and graduate students; • A 2009 Center review that will include information on how you can collaborate and engage with colleagues; and • Featured presentation by Nanovis--the first company occupant of the Birck Nanotechnology Center. ***** REGISTER BY WEDNESDAY 04.14.10***** at nano.purdue.edu/researchreview.php If you have any questions please contact Deborah Starewich [ dstarewi(a)purdue.edu , (765) 494-3509]. ATTENTION (1) Prepare a POSTER and enter the competition -- top winning poster receives $300. Posters are due by Wednesday, April 14, 2010. You must use one of the poster templates [24x36 or 36x24] located on-line. First 15 entrants may have their posters framed -- see Deborah. Pizza will be provided for presenters in BRK 1001 immediately following the research review. (2) GRADUATING students will be highlighted at the Review in a video to be shown in the Birck Atrium. Thanks to the students who registered. It may be too late to be included in the video, but it's not too late to let us know that you are graduating! (3) Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to register and attend as many of the sessions as possible. [ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION / REGISTER ] KUDOS to NSAC and other volunteers for a successful NanoDays! Supporters of the event include Barnes & Thornburg, Nanovis, Noodles Company, Papa Johns, Mad Mushroom Pizza, Intel, The Trails, Purdue Research Park, and Discovery Park Engagement. Special thanks to DP engagement for the balloons, helium tank, and string; to Christy Cooper for providing a demo; all volunteers; NSAC leadership; and BNC staff members. Journal and Courier article ; WLFI interview NanoDays Raffle Winners! NanoDays T-shirt: Linner (unknown first name) NSAC T-shirt: Gale Lockwood Easter Baskets: Pat Short and Monica Allain $25 Gift Certificate to Adelino's: Alfredo Tuesta $25 Gift Certificate to Spurlock's: Roberto Sayer Lunch for 2 at Trails Restaurant: Deanne Kennery Dinner for 2 at Trails Restaurant: Nancy Black TOURS/VISITORS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Wednesday, 04.14.10, 9:30AM, Martin Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering, Room 1001 : "A (Toy) Story of Drug Delivery Systems," by Kinam Park, recipient, 2009 Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award at Purdue; professor, Biomedical Engineering and Industrial and Physical Pharmacy. Abstract : Modern medicine does not exist without drugs, but the drugs are not useful without proper delivery systems. Drug delivery systems have advanced during the last five decades from the primitive powder formulations to the programmable delivery systems. The drug formulations range from fast-dissolving tablets which are designed to release a drug in a matter of seconds to drug-eluting stents delivering a drug for several months. Despite these advances, new drug delivery technologies remain to be developed, especially for drug targeting, long-term delivery, and site-specific drug delivery. Recent progresses in nanofabrication have allowed preparation of nano/micro structures that are ideally suited for various controlled release applications. This presentation deals with how new smart polymers and current nanofabrication techniques can be used for developing better formulations for the future. Bio: Kinam Park is the Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in pharmaceutics from the University of Wisconsin in 1983. He currently holds a joint faculty appointment at Purdue in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Industrial & Physical Pharmacy (IPPH). His research has been focused on the use of various polymers and hydrogels for controlled drug delivery. His current research includes homogeneous microparticles using nano/micro fabrication, hydrotropic polymeric micelles, superporous hydrogels, fast melting tablet formulations, and drug-eluting stents. Professor Park is the 2009 recipient of the Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award at Purdue University. This award is presented annually to a researcher at Purdue University in recognition of outstanding research contributions. This seminar is being co-hosted by the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Industrial & Physical Pharmacy, as well as the Purdue University Chapter of Sigma Xi. Thursday, 04.15.10, 5:30PM, MRGN 121 : "The Future of Environmental Ethics," by Dr. Holmes Rolston, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University. Bioethics Lecture Series 2009-2010. Friday, 04.16.10, 10:30AM, EE118: "A Signal-Processing Approach to Modeling Vision, and Applications," by Sheila Hemami, Cornell University. [ announcement ] UPCOMING Monday, 04.19.10, 3:00PM, MRGN 129 : "Radiation nanofocusing using tapered metal gaps," by Sergey Bozhevolnyi, Institute of Sensors, Signals and Electrotechnics (SENSE), University of Southern Denmark Abstract : Nanofocusing of electromagnetic radiation, i.e. its concentrating well below the diffraction limit, is one of the most fundamental, yet rich with prospective applications, research directions in optics, in general, and in plasmonics, in particular. After briefly reviewing various options for nanofocusing in free space by using near-field phase conjugation [1], linking it to the recent developments in nanofocusing [2] and cloaking [3], the radiation nanofocusing by making use of suitable surface plasmon (SP) modes supported by metal waveguides, i.e. the SP modes that scale down in size linearly with the waveguide cross section, is discussed. Nanofocusing of channel plasmon polaritons (CPPs), which are SP modes supported by grooves cut into metal, is considered in detail, not only presenting the underlying physics involved but also reporting on design, fabrication, characterization and modelling of radiation CPP nanofocusing with subwavelength gold grooves being gradually tapered synchronously in depth and in width. Efficient CPP nanofocusing at telecom wavelengths with the estimated field intensity enhancement of up to ~ 90 is directly demonstrated using near-field microscopy and careful electromagnetic simulations predict more than 1000-fold intensity enhancements [4], opening thereby exciting perspectives for practical exploitation of the CPP-based nanofocusing. Another promising approach is to actually implement an original idea by Nerkararyan [5] of radiation focusing in tapered gaps, an approach that allowed us to achieve the intensity field enhancement of ~100 at the gold groove bottom (under normal illumination) [6]. Further developments and possible applications of the plasmonic nanofocusing phenomena are also discussed. Bio : Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi (born in 1955) has received the degrees of M.Sc. in physics (1978) and Ph.D. in quantum electronics (1981) from the Moscow Physical Technical Institute, a.k.a. “FizTech”, and Dr.Scient. from Aarhus University, Denmark (1998). He joined the Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, Aalborg University (Denmark) in 1991, becoming a professor in physics in 2003. Since February 2008 he is a professor in nano-optics at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense), heading research activities within plasmonics and near-field optics. His research interests include linear and nonlinear nano-optics, surface plasmon polaritons and nano-plasmonic circuits, multiple light scattering including photonic band gap and light localization phenomena, photonics and optical sensors. Plasmonics with implications to nanophotonics and bio- and molecular sensing is his main current research field. He has (co-) authored more than 240 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals (citations > 4300, h = 33), 10 patents and 9 book chapters, edited a book “Plasmonic Nano-Guides and Circuits” (Word Scientific, Singapore, 2008) and gave more than 80 invited talks at international conferences and seminars. Prof. Bozhevolnyi has supervised 8 postdocs and 15 PhD projects, and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. Hosted by Vladimir Shalaev shalaev(a)purdue.edu , 494-9855 Reverse Osmosis Week Seminars included in this event: RO Operation and Maintenance : Apr 19, 2010; BRK 2001 RO Monitoring & Troubleshooting : Apr 20, 2010; BRK 1001 Interpreting Water Analyses : Apr 21, 2010; BRK 1001 Expert Troubleshooting of Membrane Systems : Apr 22, 2010; BRK 1001 Expert Biofouling Control : Apr 23, 2010; BRK 1001 [ More ] Wednesday, 04.28.10, 3:30PM, MRGN 129: "Are relations P=hk and E=mc2 simultaneously compatible with principle of wave-particle duality?" by Victor Veselago, A.M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Abstract: With the advent in scientific language the terms «negative refraction coefficient» or «negative refraction» as well as related terms, researchers put some questions, which generally speaking have a much broader significance than the above words. The notion of «negative refraction coefficient» was shown for the first time probably in our early work . However, we have shown that a simple substitution of negative values n in some formula of electrodynamics and optics often leads to grave mistakes. Moreover, if the phase and group velocity are antiparallel, you must be very careful with some other formulas, which are not directly included value of n. This applies, for example, to the very well known formula P=hk , linking the value of the photon linear momentum with its wave vector. It is obvious that in the case of negative wave vector k , this formula gives a negative value for the photon linear momentum, and thus in case of the light absorption light pressure should be replaced by light attraction. This is all the more imperative that, strangely enough, the value of the photon linear momentum, even for the usual matter with positive case is a subject of debate for over 100 years . This discussion is based on the existence of two completely different energy-momentum tensors for electromagnetic fields, namely tensors in Minkowski form and in the form of Abraham. They give different expression for the forces in the transparent body by passing it through the electromagnetic radiation. Interesting to note that the tensor of Abraham in fact is not a tensor, because it is not a relativistic invariant. As to the Minkowski tensor, its use leads to some unusual expression for the masses, transferred by the radiation from the emitter to the receiver (values vph and vgr are phase and group velocities accordingly). >From this expression becomes clear, that in the case of negative refractive index the mass is transferred not from the radiator to the receiver, but in opposite direction from the receiver to the radiator. The above considerations indicate that relations and are not simultaneously compatible with wave-particle duality principle . Bio: Victor Georgievich Veselago graduated from Moscow University in 1952, and was with P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, from 1952 to 1983. From 1983 up to now, he is the head of laboratory of magnetic materials in A.M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics. He received his PhD degree in 1962, for radiospectropy investigation of molecular spectra, and degree Doctor of Science (solid state physics) in 1974 for investigation of solid state in high magnetic field., both in P.N. Lebedev Institute. From 1993-2007,he was a professor of applied physics in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The area of specialization for V.G. Veselago is electro-dynamics, solid-state physics and informatics technologies. His current research interests are metamaterials, negative refraction and electronic publication. V.G. Veselago is a winner of State Prize for science of USSR (1973), and a winner of academician V.A. Fock prize (2004). Also a winner of the CEK Mees medal winner from OSA (2009). He is also an Honored Scientist of Russian Federation (2001). Host: Vladimir Shalaev (Shalaev(a)purdue.edu) FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Deadline Approaching! Clean Tech Business Plan Competition: 1st Place: $25,000; 2nd Place: $10,000; 3rd Place: $5,000. 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