November 2015 - BNC-all - ecn.purdue.edu

2nd floor west hallway closures next week
by Totten, Mary J 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

Everyone, We are going to try and finish up stripping and waxing the hallways in Birck before the snow comes. Next week we will be working on the 2nd floor west wing hallways. If you have an office, you will not be able to have access to your office until 10:00AM that day. If you need access to a lab, please remember you can use the galley doors for access. Below is the schedule: Monday - BRK 2217 - 2239 (Includes grad students offices) Tuesday - BRK 2261 - 2283 Wednesday - BRK 2251 (All the far west hallway! You will not be able to use the west elevator or west stairwell) Friday - BRK 2287-2295 Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Mary Jo Totten Birck Nanotechnology Center Discovery Park/Purdue University 1205 West State Street BRK 1220 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 (765) 496-1173 The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. "Confucius"

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Purdue Day at the Indiana State Museum
by Pol, Swati 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

[Purdue University] [http://www.purdue.edu/email/2015/MM-15-6603-PurdueDay-evite/images/spacer.p…] [Purdue Day at the Indiana State Museum] [http://www.purdue.edu/email/2015/MM-15-6603-PurdueDay-evite/images/spacer.p…] Are you ready for a day of creativity, learning and fun with your Boilermaker family? Visit nano-Purdue (Birck Nanotechnology Center in Discovery Park) booth for Purdue Day at the Indiana State Museum<http://www.purdue.edu/purdueday> on Saturday, Nov. 21, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It is featuring more than 25 hands-on exhibits and interactive demonstrations, as well as special performances and appearances. Simply show your Purdue student, faculty, staff or alumni ID, or wear Purdue gear, to receive a discounted admission rate to the museum (adult $9.75; senior $9; child $6.50; children three and under are free). Spanning three floors of Core Galleries, the museum features exciting exhibits that dive deeper into Indiana art, science and culture. In addition to the museum's exhibits, interactive displays and events will help inspire future Boilermakers to learn more about educational and research offerings available at Purdue. We hope to see you there. Boiler Up! nano-Purdue @ the Purdue Day at ISM (c) 2015 Purdue University All Rights Reserved EA/EOU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Swati Pol, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Outreach and Engagement Officer Birck Nanotechnology Center, Discovery Park at Purdue University 1205 West State Street, Room 1010 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Tel: (765) 494-5138 email: spol(a)purdue.edu<mailto:spol@purdue.edu> Birck Nanotechnology Center: https://nano.purdue.edu<https://nano.purdue.edu/> NanoDays 2015: https://nano.purdue.edu/nanodays [Birck_Nanotechnology_Center_Logo]

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CORRECTION BNC e-news for the week of Nov. 9th
by Anthrop, Heather L 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

The time for today's seminar is 2:30pm Thank you, Heather L Anthrop From: Anthrop, Heather L Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 12:31 PM To: 'bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu' <bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu> Subject: BNC e-news for the week of Nov. 9th Seminar Dr. Jeff Meth Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites Monday, November 9th at 2:30 pm in Birck 1001 For more information please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1382 Dr. Ali Shakouri Nanoscale Thermal/Thermoelectric Energy Conversion (NT-TEC) Seminar Ballistic, diffusive and superdiffusive thermal transport: Do fractals matter? Thursday, November 12th at noon in Birck 1001 Contamination Control Please always be mindful of contamination control when entering the gowning room and the cleanroom. Here are a couple of reminders about particulate control . . . (1) Please do not take any kind of cardboard, or corrugated paper products or containers, into the gowning room. The gowning room is also a part of the cleanroom and cleanliness actually starts outside the gowning room in the pre-gowning area. No cardboard, paper, or any kind of particulate-generating materials of any kind are allowed in the gowning room. (2) Also please do not enter the gowning room through the first air-shower and then remove an outer garment, such as a sweater or sweatshirt, in the gowning room. This defeats the purpose of the first air shower in that your outer garment that you removed has been cleaned by the air shower, but your secondary garment has not. By removing the outer garment in the gowning room you have violated the protocol to have all street clothes exposed to the pre-gowning air shower. Thanks for your attention to this. This will help keep our pristine facility ultra-clean for supporting world-class research.

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BNC e-news for the week of Nov. 9th
by Anthrop, Heather L 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Seminar Dr. Jeff Meth Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites Monday, November 9th at 3:30 pm in Birck 1001 For more information please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1382 Dr. Ali Shakouri Nanoscale Thermal/Thermoelectric Energy Conversion (NT-TEC) Seminar Ballistic, diffusive and superdiffusive thermal transport: Do fractals matter? Thursday, November 12th at noon in Birck 1001 Contamination Control Please always be mindful of contamination control when entering the gowning room and the cleanroom. Here are a couple of reminders about particulate control . . . (1) Please do not take any kind of cardboard, or corrugated paper products or containers, into the gowning room. The gowning room is also a part of the cleanroom and cleanliness actually starts outside the gowning room in the pre-gowning area. No cardboard, paper, or any kind of particulate-generating materials of any kind are allowed in the gowning room. (2) Also please do not enter the gowning room through the first air-shower and then remove an outer garment, such as a sweater or sweatshirt, in the gowning room. This defeats the purpose of the first air shower in that your outer garment that you removed has been cleaned by the air shower, but your secondary garment has not. By removing the outer garment in the gowning room you have violated the protocol to have all street clothes exposed to the pre-gowning air shower. Thanks for your attention to this. This will help keep our pristine facility ultra-clean for supporting world-class research.

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NSAC Coffee Hour
by Anthrop, Heather L 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Please join in today's NSAC coffee hour at 3:30 pm in the Birck atrium. Copper Graphene Hybrid Interconnects presented by Rutchit Mehta

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Jill Hruby, President & Lab Director of Sandia National Labs NOW 3pm in MRGN 121
by Turner, Jaime J 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

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FW: Special Grad Course Offering - Research Translation and Entrepreneurship
by Reger, Ronald K 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

To the Birck community, for your awareness and action if interested . . . . We would greatly appreciate it if you would distribute the email below and attached flyer to any graduate students and faculty who might be interested in this course which will be offered next semester. If you have any questions, please let us know. Thanks in advance! Nathalie Duval-Couetil Mike Ladisch _______________________________________________________________________ Special Grad Course Offering - Research Translation and Entrepreneurship __________________________________________________________________________________ Attached please find a flyer describing a course that will be offered again in the Spring 2016 semester for faculty and graduate students interested in translating research into tangible products. The course will be led by Mike Ladisch, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Associate Professor of Technology Leadership and Innovation. Lectures will present case studies of technologies and pathways to commercialization. Guest speakers and networking opportunities will address issues related to the startup process. Life of a Faculty Entrepreneur: Discovery, Development, Translation (ABE 62600/TLI 62600) Date/Time: Thursday evenings from 5:30 - 8:20pm in the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121 For more information about the course, please contact Mike Ladisch at Ladisch(a)purdue.edu<mailto:Ladisch@purdue.edu> or Nathalie Duval-Couetil at natduval(a)purdue.edu<mailto:natduval@purdue.edu>. [cid:image001.png@01D10D86.F27E0960] Nathalie Duval-Couetil, MBA, PhD Associate Professor, Technology, Leadership, and Innovation Director, Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program Associate Director, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Purdue University Office: 765-494-7068 Cell: 765-337-4687 Email: natduval(a)purdue.edu<mailto:natduval@purdue.edu>

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Re: [BNC-all] Birck Center's 10th anniversary, Oct. 30
by Shakouri, Ali 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Dear All, I would like to thank everybody who contributed and/or participated at Birck Center's 10th anniversary event last Friday. We had outstanding speakers and a great poster session. It was a nice opportunity to hear how the initial ideas dating back to 1996 or so eventually led to BNC and to ponder about what we should do in the next 10 years and beyond. Jim Cooper, in a recent email, summarized very nicely: "I just wanted to tell you that the Birck 10th anniversary celebration was, in a word, AWESOME. Nanotech Madness was a winner -- everybody enjoyed it. All the morning sessions were interesting, the poster session was great, ... . Please pass my congratulations to all who helped with the organization, planning, and execution. You outdid yourselves!" I would like to thank the outstanding work of the organizing committee (lead by John Weaver, including Jaime Turner, Swati Pol, Mary Jo Totten, Donna Brown, Lyndsey Estes, Maria Longoria-Littleton, Nicole Kingma, Pam Burrof-Murr, Sarah Anderson, and Paul Sturm) who worked very hard for many months to prepare for this event. John's meticulous planning in every stage was essential. Dimitri Peroulis suggested and helped run many of the exciting activities (Nanotech madness, commercialization panel, tribute to students). Many of the staff from Ron Reger's and Mark Voorhis' teams were involved and worked hard to prepare the facility. Swati Pol and Nancy Black did a great job with many students in a major job to update all of the posters in the facility. Joe Cychosz and his colleagues at nanoHUB have kindly recorded all of the presentations from last Friday and they will be available online shortly. As Mark Lundstrom highlighted, 10th anniversary event is just the beginning as we will be working to update our strategic plans in the coming months. This is a great opportunity to leverage synergies as Discovery Park's new Chief Scientist and Executive Director, Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, is preparing plans for DP2.0. While this is fresh in your memory, I look forward to hear feedback and suggestions on what we should do to take BNC to the next level (anything from improving operations and logistics to strategic equipment updates, user facilities and new research directions). Best regards, Ali From: Shakouri, Ali Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 9:17 AM To: bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Birck Center's 10th anniversary, tomorrow, Oct. 30 Dear All, We are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Birck Nanotechnology Center tomorrow (Friday April 30th). Attached is the agenda, but I would like to highlight a few items. Provost Deba Dutta will launch the event in Burton Morgan room 121 at 8am. Roger Howe, director of Stanford nanofabrication facility, will be the keynote speaker. He will be sharing highlights of his research in thermionic energy conversion as well as talking about the future of shared university fabrication facilities. His talk will be followed immediately by a panel discussion on the directions that nanotechnology is headed. The panel will consist of Roger, former Purdue Provost and President of Virginia Tech Tim Sands, and our own Mark Lundstrom. The morning will close with talks about the history and prospects of the Birck Nanotechnology Center by key individuals involved in the leadership of the facility from its early days until present. President Martin Jischke will share his thoughts about initiating Discovery Park and BNC. Dick Schwartz, then Dean of Engineering, and Jim Cooper were the founding directors of the center; Rashid Bashir led the efforts at the intersection of bio and nanotechnology; Tim Sands was the second director of the center who expanded both collaboration and the interdisciplinary nature of the facility. At the end I briefly describe latest initiatives at BNC. Everyone is invited to a luncheon in the Burton Morgan Café, honoring the students who have worked and are working in the BNC. A video of student experiences will be playing in the background as everyone has their lunch. The afternoon kicks off with a short presentation on nanoHUB by NCN director, Gerhard Klimeck, followed by a series of very short presentations on faculty research in the BNC. 18 faculty members will talk about their research in an "elevator pitch" format. This will be followed by three startup companies from the BNC sharing their experiences with the support of the center. These will also be held at Burton Morgan. At 3:30 pm we will move to the BNC atrium for a tribute to the BNC Staff. This will include a cake-and-punch reception. The day concludes with a very large poster session where students will share their current research in the facility. I look forward to see you at the event tomorrow. I'm sure you will find the day both enjoyable and informative. Cheers, Ali

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