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Save the Date September 22-24, 2010
by Schwartz, Melissa J 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Itroduction to XPS: What should you know about X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy? September 22-23, 2010 (2-day course) with an optional 3rd Day (9-24) 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. in Burton Morgan Center Room 129 (Discovery Park, Purdue University) Watch for Registration soon to open! Registration & Additional Info: nano.purdue.edu/XPS/ Quoestions? Contact Dmitry Zemlyanov at: dzemlian(a)purdue.edu<mailto:dzemlian@purdue.edu> or Melissa Schwartz at: lanem(a)purdue.edu<mailto:lanem@purdue.edu> Melissa Marris-Schwartz Secretary Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Phone: 765-494-7053 Fax: 765-496-8299 Email: lanem(a)purdue.edu www.nano.purdue.edu

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Weekly Memo: 06.14.10
by Deborah Starewich 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '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 June 14, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS Candidate for Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:00-10:00 a.m. Room 121 Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Dr. Ramamoorthy Ramesh Professor and Plato Malozemoff Chair in Materials Science & Engineering and Physics University of California, Berkeley Vision for the Future of the Birck Nanotechnology Center There will be a reception immediately following the presentation in the Morgan Commons NEW PROCESS TO REQUEST OFFICE SPACE: faculty, students, guests Faculty may request a BNC office or student/postdoc/visitor desk on-line at the Birck website nano.purdue.edu/Resources/office-request.php . This electronic request must be completed by the faculty member for both a BNC Office and for a student desk. GRADUATE STUDENTS Collegiate Inventors Competition -- Only a Few Weeks Left! -- Deadline June 25 There are only a few weeks left to submit your invention or groundbreaking patentable research to the Collegiate Inventors Competition. Previous winners of the Competition have gone on to receive MacArthur Foundation grants, form start-up companies, gain honor and recognition for their work in national publications and receive prestigious fellowships. If you are a Graduate or Undergraduate student with a proven idea, you could be next! [ More ] SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Monday, 06.14.10, 10:00AM, MRGN 129: “Uncertainty Quantification and Model Validation in Mechanical System Behavior Prediction,” by Sankaran Mahadevan, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director, NSF-IGERT Doctoral Program in Risk and Reliability Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. [ More ] Monday, 06.14.10, 1:30PM, Martin Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering, Room 1001: "Vision for the Future of the Energy Center," by Dr. Wallace E. Tyner, James and Lois Ackerman Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University. Candidate for Director of the Energy Center. UPCOMING Thursday, 07.08.10, 10:00AM, BRK 1001: "Transformative Power Semiconductor Technologies to Impact 21st Century Energy Economy, and Space and Defense Electronics," by Krishna Sheniai, PhD, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Toledo [ More ] 6th MPM Workshop, 08.09.10 and 08.10.10, University of New Mexico. Information available on-line . Register by 06.30.10. The 2010 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CiSE2010), 12.10.10 to 12.12.10, Wuhan, China. http://www.ciseng.org/2010 OPPORTUNITIES Call for User Proposals: The Molecular Foundry Call for Proposals Begins: Monday, June 14, 2010 Submission Deadline: Thursday, July 15, 2010 Projected Award Date: Friday, October 4, 2010 Dear Colleagues, The Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a Department of Energy (DOE) national nanoscience user facility, is currently accepting requests for user access to its instruments, capabilities and skilled technical staff from scientists and engineers who are seeking to enhance their own research projects. Requests from potential users, in the form of web-based standard proposals, must be received not later than July 15, 2010 to be considered in our current semiannual call cycle. [ More ] EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Post doc positions: ORNL Scanning Probe Microscopy for Functional Imaging, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [ Flier ] DISCOVERY PARK The Discovery Park Viewbook is now live and available at the Discovery Park homepage. We are proud to inform you that the Discovery Park electronic viewbook is now available on the homepage. [ 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 June 21, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 06.18.10, 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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Seminar on nanowire thermal transport--Thursday 10 June
by Tim Fisher 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

* Seminar* * * * Thursday, June 10, 2010* * 3:30pm, ME256* * * Thermal transport in nanostructured materials: working to improve efficiency in the field of thermoelectrics *Suzanne Singer, Ph.D.* * * * * *Abstract: * Various forms of thermal energy are being investigated and utilized as an alternative energy source. Thermoelectric devices are one such method that has the ability to provide thermal to electrical energy conversion, or be used as a cooling mechanism when power is input. The applications range from waste heat recycling”to local electronic cooling needs. The performance of these devices largely depends on the films that provide thermoelectric effects. The thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, is a standard measure of material efficiency and depends on electrical conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, and the thermal conductivity. The investigation of thermal transport in thin films provides some insight and methods to reduce thermal conductivity in efforts to increase ZT. The presence of nanostructures in the films affects the transport of heat within the film and thus can be used to manipulate the thermal properties. This talk discusses the performance of nanostructured thin films as a potential material for thermoelectric energy conversion applications, as well as the material composition variations that can provide guidelines for finding low values of thermal conductivity. *Biography:* Suzanne L. Singer received her mechanical engineering M.S. and Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of California at Berkeley, and her B.S. from the University of Arizona. Suzanne was a Ford dissertation fellow and a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate research fellowship. She also was a graduate student intern at Sandia National Laboratories during 2008-2009 working with the Tribal Energy Program, and the Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory. Refreshments will be served at 3:00pm in Room ME254.* * _______________________________________________ Me-faculty mailing list Me-faculty(a)ecn.purdue.edu https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/mailman/listinfo/me-faculty -- Tim Fisher Purdue University https://engineering.purdue.edu/~tsfisher http://thermalHUB.org -- Tim Fisher Purdue University https://engineering.purdue.edu/~tsfisher http://thermalHUB.org

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Birck Director Candidate Presentation; WEDNESDAY, 06.16.10, 9:00AM, MRGN 121
by Starewich, Deborah S. 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

[cid:3358841969_114929443] PRESENTATION Candidate for Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:00-10:00 a.m. Room 121 Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Dr. Ramamoorthy Ramesh Professor and Plato Malozemoff Chair in Materials Science & Engineering and Physics University of California, Berkeley Vision for the Future of the Birck Nanotechnology Center There will be a reception immediately following the presentation in the Morgan Commons

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Birck Director Candidate Presentation
by Weiderhaft, Ruth A 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

[cid:image001.jpg@01CB06FD.51C5C840] PRESENTATION Candidate for Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:00-10:00 a.m. Room 121 Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Dr. Ramamoorthy Ramesh Professor and Plato Malozemoff Chair in Materials Science & Engineering and Physics University of California, Berkeley Vision for the Future of the Birck Nanotechnology Center There will be a reception immediately following the presentation in the Morgan Commons __________________________________________ Ruth Ann Weiderhaft Administrative Assistant Discovery Park Administration Office of the Vice President for Research Hovde Hall 610 Purdue Mall West Lafayette, IN 47907-2040 Phone: 765-496-6625 Fax: 765-494-7474 Email: weiderhaft(a)purdue.edu

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Purdue's New Smoke-Free Policy Effective July 1
by Totten, Mary J 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

From: Boland, Stephanie E Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 1:47 PM Subject: Purdue's New Smoke-Free Policy Effective July 1 Communications Announcement Purdue University - Physical Facilities TO: Building Deputies [Please distribute.] FR: Carol A. Shelby, Senior Director, Environmental Health and Public Safety DA: Friday, June 4, 2010 RE: Purdue's New Smoke-Free Policy Effective July 1 Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.<http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/email/SmokeFree1.html> [cid:image001.jpg@01CB03EA.CA5B9020]<http://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/smokefree/> Purdue's New Smoke-Free Policy Effective July 1 Purdue's "smoke-free" policy is designed to support a healthy campus and limit exposure to secondhand smoke, which has been determined unsafe at any level according to the EPA. As of July 1, smoking will no longer be permitted on campus except in a limited number of designated areas. For more information on this policy, including a map of the designated smoking areas, see www.purdue.edu/smokefree<http://www.purdue.edu/smokefree>. Frequently Asked Questions Who has to comply with this policy? All university employees, students, or visitors on the West Lafayette campus. What does "smoke-free" mean? It means that smoking is prohibited both indoors and outdoors on the entire grounds of the campus, including in all vehicles owned or leased by the University. Is there anywhere I can smoke? Smoking is permitted inside privately owned, closed vehicles. In addition, the Executive Vice President for Business and Finance and Treasurer may grant the designation of smoking areas on the West Lafayette campus. View a map of designated smoking areas<http://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/smokefree/map.htm>. Why did Purdue make this change? The health of our students, faculty, staff, and visitors is our number one concern. Smoking and secondhand smoke can increase a person's risk for heart disease, cancer, and respiratory problems, just to name a few. According to the EPA, there is no safe exposure level to secondhand smoke. As an employer, Purdue University is burdened by increased medical costs, higher insurance rates, added maintenance expenses, lower productivity, and higher absenteeism rates when our faculty and staff smoke. Have all Purdue campuses instituted this policy? All Purdue campuses have a non-smoking policy, but the details of each policy are at the discretion of each campus's administration. Can I get assistance if I want to quit smoking? Smoking cessation programs are available to those who are ready to quit. See the list of resources<http://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/smokefree/cessation.htm>. [cid:image002.jpg@01CB03EA.CA5B9020]<http://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/smokefree/>

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BNC Weekly Memo - June 7, 2010
by Jeff Goecker 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '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 June 7, 2010 ________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS Landscaping work Beginning Tuesday, June 1, there will be a backhoe working to the east of the Birck Nanotechnology Center, in the area between BNC and BBC. The work hours will be from 7:30 AM to 2:00 PM. We do not expect to experience vibration issues from the work, but please be aware of the activity. If you have interruptions to research as a result of this work, please contact John Weaver jrweaver(a)purdue.edu or Mark Voorhis mvoorhis(a)purdue.edu. Living accommodations? Summer living accommodations? We have international visitors conducting research here this summer who are in need of housing. Please contact Deborah Starewich if you know of any housing. Floor restoration The 1st floor men's restroom will be closed on Wednesday June 9th for floor restoration. Please use the 2nd floor men's restroom and thank you for your understanding. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Mary Jo Totten [6-1173] Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Indiana Undergraduate Research Program: Applications are now being accepted for the fall session of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Indiana Undergraduate Research Program. Also, the program's summer session has scheduled a poster session for July 29. [More] ________________________________ SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information PRISM Seminar - “Uncertainty Quanti-ication and Model Validation in Mechanical System Behavior Prediction” Sankaran Mahadevan Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Director, NSF-IGERT Doctoral Program in Risk and Reliability Engineering Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Monday, June 14, 2010 10:00-‐11:00 am, MRGN 129 [Flier] Life and Death in Vitro - The Evolution of Techniques for Measuring Cell Growth and Toxicity in Culture Presented by Mark Rothenberg, Ph.D., Corning Life Sciences Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time - Register 17:00 - 18:00 (UK); 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe) Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time - Register 14:00 - 15:00 (UK); 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe) Abstract This seminar will discuss the development of in vitro techniques for measuring and estimating cell growth and cytotoxicity including direct cell counting, clonogenic assays and microplate-based assays. Also covered will be some of the problems that are typically encountered when trying to measure cytotoxicity using these techniques: • Timing experiments • Defining cytotoxicity • What is the dose? • Interpreting results [More] Keithley - Understanding the basics of electrical measurements Web Seminar [More] 5th BioNanoTox and Applications Research Conference will be held on November 4-5th, 2010, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. [More] ________________________________ KUDOS John Wilcox has won the NSAC Leadership Travel Grant. His contributions to the BNC as President of NSAC have been instrumental in engaging fellow and prospective students as well as the community in the Birck Nanotechnology Center. He will use the grant to present a paper at the 35th IEEE Photovoltaic’s conference this June. ________________________________ FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES The National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a DOE User Facility for Electron Scattering, is currently accepting research proposals for the next quarterly deadline of June 15, 2010. The mission of the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) is to provide scientists from universities, government and industrial laboratories with cutting-edge instrumentation, techniques and expertise for advanced electron beam microcharacterization of materials at high spatial resolution. Access to NCEM is free of charge for research that is in the public domain and intended for open publication. NCEM is one of the world’s foremost centers for electron optical microcharacterization with a resident staff of scientists who conduct high-level research and collaborate with external research groups to maximize the impact of electron optical methods on materials science. NCEM’s major focus is in the following areas of research: Defects and deformation; Mechanisms and kinetics of phase transformations; Nanostructured materials; Surfaces, interfaces and thin films. Prospective users are encouraged to contact NCEM staff to discuss proposal ideas in advance of submission and to learn more about special capabilities of particular interest (see the Staff section of the NCEM web page). Approved projects will receive user access and work can begin as soon as possible after this notification. The following instruments are accessible to users: • double-Cs-corrected TEAM 0.5 Microscope / Cs+Cc-corrected TEAM I • One-Angstrom Microscope (CM300) • CM200/FEG Analytical TEM/STEM • Spin-Polarized Low-Energy Electron Microscope • JEOL 3010 In-situ TEM • FEI Dual-beam FIB • Monochromated FEI Tecnai F20 TEM/STEM • Monochromated Zeiss Libra TEM/STEM Microscope All proposals will be reviewed for feasibility, safety, and potential for high-impact science. Users for approved projects must complete access and training requirements prior to beginning experiments. If you have any questions please contact NCEM's administrator JLCavlina(a)lbl.gov To submit a proposal online, or obtain further information, please visit the NCEM website: http://ncem.lbl.gov ________________________________ DISCOVERY PARK Energy Center Director Interview Presentations Candidate for Director of the Energy Center Interviews: Dr. Wallace E. Tyner James and Lois Ackerman Professor Department of Agricultural Economics Purdue University Monday, June 14, 2010 1:30-2:30 p.m. Room 1001 Martin Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering Dr. Mahdi Abu-Omar Professor, Department of Chemistry Purdue University Tuesday, June 8, 2010 1:30-2:30 p.m. Room 121 Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship ________________________________ 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 June 14, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 06.11.10, toDeborah 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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Weekly Memo: 05.31.10
by Deborah Starewich 28 May '10

28 May '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 May 31, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS Landscaping work Beginning Tuesday, June 1, there will be a backhoe working to the east of the Birck Nanotechnology Center, in the area between BNC and BBC. The work hours will be from 7:30 AM to 2:00 PM. We do not expect to experience vibration issues from the work, but please be aware of the activity. If you have interruptions to research as a result of this work, please contact John Weaver jrweaver(a)purdue.edu or Mark Voorhis mvoorhis(a)purdue.edu . Memo: June 7, 2010 Items for next week's memo: June 7, 2010. Please send any items for the next memo to Jeff Goecker by Friday, 06.04.10. Living accommodations? Summer living accommodations? We have international visitors conducting research here this summer who are in need of housing. Please contact Deborah Starewich if you know of any housing. Floor restoration The 1st floor men's restroom will be closed on Wednesday June 9th for floor restoration. Please use the 2nd floor men's restroom and thank you for your understanding. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Mary Jo Totten [6-1173] SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information The International Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics (SOPO 2010) Participation Registration is Open / www.scirp.org/conf/sopo2010 June 19-21, 2010 Chengdu, China [ More ] The International Workshop on Automatic Control (IWAC2010) (EI Indexed) http://www.msai2010.org/iwac Nov. 4-6, 2010 Henan, China [ 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 June 7, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 06.04.10, to Jeff Goecker jgoecker(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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Excavation work at BNC
by Weaver, John R 28 May '10

28 May '10

Beginning Tuesday, June 1, there will be a backhoe working to the east of the Birck Nanotechnology Center, in the area between BNC and BBC. The work hours will be from 7:30 AM to 2:00 PM. We do not expect to experience vibration issues from the work, but please be aware of the activity. If you have interruptions to research as a result of this work, please contact John Weaver jrweaver(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jrweaver@purdue.edu> or Mark Voorhis mvoorhis(a)purdue.edu<mailto:mvoorhis@purdue.edu>. Thank you for your understanding during this project. John John R. Weaver Facility Manager Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University (765) 494-5494 jrweaver(a)purdue.edu

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Free Food Tonight
by Drew Candebat 27 May '10

27 May '10

Dear Hard Workers and Researchers, Just a friendly reminder that Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council (NSAC) is inviting you to a Birck-wide get together at Buffalo Wild Wings on the Levee tonight starting at 5:30 PM. We'll provide the appetizers!! See you there, Drew Candebat Social and Hospitality Committee Chair NSAC, BNC

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