WEEKLY MEMO, July 28, 2008 ****************** 1. ANNOUNCEMENTS ****************** 1.1: August 1, 2008, marks the anniversary of the death of Casey Heaton. We will be honoring Casey with the dedication of a plaque at the window to Bay R of the cleanroom. The dedication will be at 10:00 AM Friday, August 1. Please feel free to join us as we honor our friend and colleague. 1.2: The staff are in the process of installing equipment interlocks for the Coral system. These interlocks will prevent the equipment from functioning unless the user has enabled them in Coral. These interlocks are important from both a safety and fair-use standpoint. Any attempt to alter, tamper with, or otherwise defeat these interlocks will be cause for disciplinary action. Coral uptime is greater than 95%. If a situation occurs where you cannot operate the equipment due to Coral or the equipment interlock, please contact the staff member responsible for that equipment immediately. Do not under any circumstances, attempt to defeat the interlock. Instructions for Coral account creation and authorization can be found at: http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/coral.php 1.3: Need to use a computer in 2092? Computers are available to do masking and modeling. In addition, the ³old² cleanroom AFM computer is here so that students may analyze images outside of the cleanroom. E-mail dpsite@ecn and request that your home directory be copied to the BRK 2092 Sun stations. 1.4: Refrigerator in the Birck kitchen is scheduled to be cleaned on Thursday, 07.31.08. Please remove any items that you don¹t want discarded. Items marked with name and dated after 07.25.08 will be saved. 1.5: Birck gets waxed J: Please have all articles picked up off the floor on the evening prior to the waxing date. Thanks! Monday, 08.04.08: BRK 2092, 2088. Tuesday, 08.05.08: BRK 2084; 2080. Thursday, 08.07.08: BRK 2218, 2222. Friday, 08.08.08: BRK 2076, 2072. Monday, 08.11.08: BRK 2226, 2230. Thursday, 08.14.08: BRK 2234, 2238. Friday, 08.15.08: BRK 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025, 2020. Monday, 08.18.08: BRK 2050, 2048, 2046, 2044. Tuesday, 08.19.08: BRK 2042, 2040, 2038. Wednesday, 08.20.08: BRK 2262, 2264, 2266, 2268. Thursday, 08.21.08: BRK 2270, 2272, 2274, 2276. Friday, 08.22.08: BRK 2295, 2293, 2291, 2289. 1.6: Video Conferencing Unit in BRK 2001 now appears on the RAT system. If you need to reserve this unit, please pick up the remotes from Annie Cheever and return them to her when you are done. Here are instructions on using the video polycom unit: IP Address: 128.46.221.190 (for your video conference participants); 3 remotes needed: Projector Remote, Polycom Camera Remote (pick up from A. Cheever), and Ceiling Camera Remote (pick up from A. Cheever); 1) Place video polycom unit where you want it in the room; 2) Turn on video polycom unit; will make a outer-space like sound; 3) Turn on projector using the projector remote; 4) Select input 3 to view room; select input 1 to view powerpoint presentation; 5) Using the polycom camera remote, key in the IP address to call -- be sure to include the periods, if you are calling another video polycom unit; select the "Call-Hang Up" key (green button on top of remote); 6) to hang up: press the "Call-Hang Up" key twice. VOLUME CONTROL: use polycom camera remote; PROBLEMS? try restarting the unit; call Joe Cychosz at 4-5944. For an audio connection, use the telephone polycom unit, too. ******************** 2. TOURS/VISITORS ******************** 2.1: Tuesday, 07.29.08, 8:00-9:00AM: International Programs in Veterinary Medicine, with Pankaj Sharma. Tour to begin in Morgan. 2.2: Tuesday, 07.29.08, 9:15-10:30AM: Qatar University, with Pankaj Sharma. Tour to begin in Morgan. 2.3: Wednesday, 07.30.08, 9:30-10:30AM: Burgett¹s Child Care. 2.4: Wednesday, 07.30.08, 2:00-3:00PM: PRF Entrepreneurship Academy high-school camp, with Charles Buck, Chris Foster, and Candiss Vibbert. 2.5: Thursday, 07.31.08, 1:00-2:00PM: Duke Energy Visit. ************************** 3. SEMINARS see below for abstracts/bios ************************** 3.1: Monday, July 28, 4:00PM, POTR 234: ³Power Generation for Micro Mobile Systems,² by Professor Sejin Kwon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). 3.2: Tuesday and Wednesday, August 5 and 6, Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN: ³Nanotechnology & the Environment.² Agenda posted at http://www.conf.purdue.edu/nano **************** 4. OPPORTUNITIES **************** 4.1: The National Science Foundation has released a new solicitation for its Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program. The goals of this program are to: 1) stimulate the transformation of knowledge created by the research and education enterprise into innovations that create new wealth; build strong local, regional and national economies; and improve the national well-being; 2) broaden the participation of all types of academic institutions and all citizens in activities to meet the diverse workforce needs of the national innovation enterprise; and 3) catalyze or enhance enabling infrastructure that is necessary to foster and sustain innovation in the long-term. To develop a set of ideas for pursuing these goals, this competition will support 12-15 promising partnerships among academe, the private sector, and state/local/ federal government that will explore new approaches to support and sustain innovation. The request for proposals is available at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08583/nsf08583.htm. <https://exchange.purdue.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.nsf.gov/pu bs/2008/nsf08583/nsf08583.htm.> For this competition, internal deadlines are as follows: Monday, August 18: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR. Monday, September 22: Preproposals due to the OVPR. Thursday, September 25: Preproposal rankings due to the OVPR. ***************************** 5. ABSTRACTS/BIOS for SEMINARS ***************************** 5.1: ³Power Generation for Micro Mobile Systems² ABSTRACT: Thanks to the breakthroughs in the micro fabrication technology, numerous concepts of micro mobile systems including micro aerial vehicle, nano satellite and micro robot have been proposed. In order to activate these mobile systems, power sources that can deliver energy density far higher than that of the secondary batteries are required. I would like to review alternative ways to generate power and discuss the technical problems involved in each of the concepts; fuel cells, micro heat engines and thermo-electric generation. The research at KAIST in hydrogen generation by methanol re-forming and catalytic hydrolysis of chemical hydride will be explained in detail. Construction of PEM fuel cell with hydrogen generated from chemical hydrides will be described. To demonstrate this concept, a small UAV powered by the above-mentioned fuel cell was built and test-flight was successfully carried out. Problems with conventional combustion in a micro combustor will be discussed and ways to avoid these by catalytic combustion will be presented. Phenomenological difficulties of a micro heat engine based on combustion will be discussed. Catalytic decomposition of monopropellant can be used as an alter-native heat source that is transformed into power generation by turbines and thermovoltaic devices. BIO: Professor Sejin Kwon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). No additional information.