Dear Birck Nanotechnology Center Colleague:

I am pleased to report that the BNC research community surpassed a significant milestone with the publication of 100 (and counting) archival journal articles in the 2007 calendar year (in Web of Science, search with ADDRESS = birck nano*).   This figure compares with 64 in 2006 and and 18 in 2005.

Although the number of papers itself does not describe the impact of the BNC community's contribution, it is notable that several of these papers are already being cited at a very high rate, and many more have been featured in the technical and lay press (thanks also to our active Purdue News Service and Discovery Park staff, particularly Emil Venere and Phillip Fiorini).

Please do continue to use the "Birck Nanotechnology Center" as one of your affiliations when, in your judgment as an author, the BNC facilities or research community has been an enabling factor in the research to be reported. Doing so helps us measure the impact of the BNC for our stakeholders, and provides valuable evidence in strengthening our center-scale proposals.

Let me also remind you that publications with BNC affiliations may be submitted for posting on e-Pubs (http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/nanopub/) under the “Birck Publications” listing.  These postings enable wider distribution of your work within the constraints of copyright restrictions and embargos imposed by publishers.  Please send your recent publications (pdf format) with the BNC as an affiliation to Jeff Goecker (jgoecker@purdue.edu) and he will assist in posting the paper.

In response to requests from the larger “nano” community at Purdue, we have added a new category in e-Pubs entitled “Other Nanotechnology Publications.”  These are articles in nanoscience, nanoengineering and nanotechnology that have been published by Purdue authors but are not affiliated explicitly with the BNC.  Jeff has loaded several articles to initiate the site.  In the future, feel free to add your own nano-related publications to this site.  Jeff can answer questions related to the process of uploading to this site.  

Best wishes for 2008,

Tim Sands
Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director,
Birck Nanotechnology Center