April 24, 2013 Dr. Jennifer West
Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
"Biomimetic Materials to Control and Manipulate Cells"
March 27, 2013 Dr. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene"
March 6, 2013 Dr. Baratunde Cola
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Heat Transfer and Manufacturing from the Nanoscale Up”
February 13, 2013 George Barbastathis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Nanomanufacturing of Multifunctional Surfaces"
January 23, 2013 Luca Dal Negro
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Photonics Center
Boston University
December 12, 2012 Gang Han
University of Massachusetts Medical School
“Beyond Fluorescence: Small and Bright Upconversion Nanoparticles for Biological Imaging”
November 7, 2012 Kenneth L. Knappenberger, Jr.
Florida State University
"Structure-dependent Nanoparticle Plasmonics"
October 24, 2012 Oliver Schmidt, KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
“Inorganic and hybrid nanomembranes for interdisciplinary research”
October 3, 2012 Richard Robinson
Cornell University
“Chemical Transformations and Structural Engineering of Nanomaterials for Energy Devices”
September 12, 2012 Dr. Cary Y. Yang
Santa Clara University
"High-frequency Characteristics of 1-D Nanostructures"
April 4, 2012 Professor Feng Wang
University of California at Berkeley
"Tunable Optical Properties of Graphene"
March 26, 2012 Professor Mark Biggs
The University of Adelaide
"Molecular Modelling for Better Understanding and Design of Nanosystems"
March 7, 2012 Professor David Tomanek
Michigan State University
"Buckyballs, Nanotubes, Graphene: Nanomaterials for the Future"
February 29, 2012 Professor Younan Xia
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Putting Nanomaterials to Work for Biomedical Research"
January 18, 2012 Professor Thomas Webster
Brown University
"Nanotechnology for Regenerating Tissues: Is It Hype or Reality?"
December 7, 2011 Professor Jie Liu
Duke University
"Growth Mechanism of Well Aligned Semiconducting Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes on Quartz"
November 2, 2011 Professor Rodney Ruoff
University of Texas at Austin
"Graphene-based and Graphene-derived Materials"
October 26, 2011 Professor Philippe Guyot-Sionnest
University of Chicago
“Electron transport in nanocrystal solids and application to infrared photodetection”
September 21, 2011 Professor Xiaohu Gao
University of Washington
"Multifunctional nanoparticles for molecular imaging and therapy"
May 18, 2011 Dr. Matthew Becker
Department of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering; University of Akron
“Using Peptides as Building Blocks for Functional Biomaterials”
March 2, 2011 Dr. Nader Engheta
University of Pennsylvania
"Taming Light and Electrons with Metamaterials"
February 16, 2011 Dr. Niren Murthy
Georgia Institute of Technology
"New materials for drug delivery and molecular imaging"
December 8, 2010 Dr. Partha Sarkar
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures (AITF)
"Fundamentals and Advanced Applications of Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD)"
November 3, 2010 Professor Terry Alford
Arizona State University
"Zinc-Oxide Based Thin Film Transistors and ZnO/Metal/ZnO Electrodes for Future Flexible Electronics"
October 20, 2010 Dr. Li Shi
University of Texas at Austin
"Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Energy Conversion in Nanostructured and Complex Materials"
October 6, 2010 Dr. Paul Braun
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"Self-Assembly of Functional Nanocomposites for Storing, Generating and Harvesting
Photons and Electrons"
September 22, 2010 Dr. Richard Haglund
Vanderbilt University
"Laser Processing of Materials: A Golden Anniversary"
March 31, 2010 Dr. Chris Summers
Georgia Tech
“Application of Atomic Layer Deposition for the Fabrication of Photonic Crystals and Bio-derived Structures”
February 24, 2010 Dr. David Ginger
University of Washington
"Nanostructured Solar Cells: From Light Harvesting with Nanoparticles to Organic Film Morphology"
February 10, 2010 Dr. Paul McEuen
Cornell University
"Nano carbon: from solar cells to atomic drums"
January 20, 2010 Dr. Mauro Ferrari
The University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston
"Cancer Nanotechnologies"
November 18, 2009 Dr. David Cahill
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
"Extremes in Heat Conduction: Pushing the Boundaries of the Thermal Conductivity of Materials"
November 4, 2009 Dr. Tom Picraux
KEYNOTE SPEAKER, 10th Annual NanoDay
Chief Scientist, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
Los Alamos National Laboratory
October 7, 2009 Dr. Luke Lee
University of California, Berkeley
"Nano and Biotechnology Convergence for Precision Biology & Personalized Medicine: Satellite Nanoscopes and OASIS"
September 2, 2009 Joint VINSE/Chemical Engineering Seminar
Dr. Zhenan Bao, Stanford
August 21, 2009 MRS Student Chapter Seminar
Dr. Ralph Carruth, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
April 15, 2009 Dr. Rashid Bashir
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
"Interfacing Silicon and Biology at the Micro and Nanoscale: Opportunities and Prospects"
April 1, 2009 Dr. Irving Herman
Columbia University
"Field-Assisted Assembly of Nanomaterials and their Optical, Mechanical and Electrical Properties"
March 11, 2009 Dr. Steve Blair
University of Utah
"Molecular Detection and Nonlinear Optics with Plasmonic Antennas"
February 18, 2009 Dr. Nicholas Kotov
University of Michigan
"Self-Assembled Systems of Nanoparticles: Similarity with Biological Systems and New Chiral Structures"
January 21, 2009 Dr. Kevin Hewitt
Dalhousie University
"Imaging Cancerous Cells Overexpressing EGFR using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)"
December 3, 2008 Dr. Jacqueline Johnson
The University of Tennessee Space Institute
"Mammography and Implant Coatings"
November 5, 2008 Dr. Mark Ratner
Northwestern University
"Molecular Electronics: Mechanics and Issues"
October 15, 2008 Dr. David Norris
University of Minnesota
"Tailoring the Glow of a Heated Metal: Photonic Crystals and Thermophotovoltaics"
September 24, 2008 Dr. Sanat Kumar
Columbia University
"Modeling the Growth of Surfactant Decorated Nanocrystals"
September 3, 2008 Dr. Torsten Fiebig
Boston College
"Photonics with Ultrafast Laser Pulses - from DNA to Semiconductor Nanorods"
April 2, 2008 Dr. Teri Odom
Northwestern University
"Multiscale Pattering of Plasmonic Metamaterials"
February 27, 2008 Dr. Costas Grigoropoulos
University of California, Berkeley
"Laser-Assisted Micro/Nanoprocessing and Device Fabrication"
January 9, 2008 Dr. Patrick Malenfant
GE Global Research
"Ordered Nanoscale Structures in High Temperature Ceramics via Block Copolymer Templating"
December 5, 2007 Dr. David Norton
University of Florida
"Nanostructured Oxide Materials: Opportunities in Fundamental Research and Technology"
November 14, 2007 Dr. Pat Stayton
University of Washington
"Smart Biohybrid Materials that Talk and Listen in Nanospace"
October 24, 2007 Dr. Evelyn Hu
University of California
"Building the Nano-Roadmap: Foundations, Milestones, and Destinations"
October 3, 2007 Dr. Clayton Williams
University of Utah
"Addressing Atomic Scale Electronic States with Single Electrons"
September 25, 2007 Dr. Paul Weiss
Pennsylvania State University
"Research on Atomic-scale Measurements and Control in Chemistry, Physics, Electronics, and Biology"
September 19, 2007 Dr. Andrea Ferrari
Cambridge University
"Carbon Nanotechnology"
April 18, 2007 Dr. Tom Crawford
University of South Carolina
"Nanoscale Magnetism - How far can we go?"
March 14, 2007 Dr. Tom Dickinson
Washington State University
"Synergistic mechanisms for material removal from surfaces: combined mechanical and chemical stimuli at the nanometer size scale"
February 28, 2007 Dr. Sharon Glotzer
University of Michigan
"Exploiting Anisotropy for Nanoscale Assembly: The Shapes of Things to Come"
January 24, 2007 Dr. M.G. Finn
The Research Institute of Scripps
"Building Blocks on the Nanochemical Scale: Chemical, Biological, and Evolutionary Engineering of Virus Particles"
December 6, 2006 Dr. Bruce Weisman
Rice University
"Fluorescence of single-walled carbon nanotubes: An application in Physics, Chemistry, and Biomedicine"
November 1, 2006 Dr. Uzi Landman
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Small is Different: Emergent Physics and Chemistry at the Nanoscale"
October 25, 2006 Dr. Philippe Fauchet
University of Rochester
"Nanoscale Silicon: Applications in Optoelectronics and Biosensing"
October 18, 2006 Dr. Michael Arnold
Northwestern University
“Separating single-walled carbon nanotubes by electronic structure via density differentiation”
October 4, 2006 Dr. Richard Martel
Universite de Montreal
"Carbon Nanotubes for Molecular Electroluminescence"
July 18, 2006 Dr. Kevin Tetz
University of California, San Diego
"Plasmonics in the Near-infrared: Spatial, Spectral and Temporal Studies of Surface Plasmon Polaritons"
May 1, 2006 Dr. Kristen Fichthorn
University Park
"Atomic-Scale Simulations in the Nanoscience of Interfaces"
March 1, 2006 Dr. Michael MacKay
Michigan State University
"Nanoscale Phenomena in Polymers Do they Measure Up?"
February 3, 2006 Dr. Byron Pipes
Purdue University
"Van der Waal’s Interactions in Carbon Nanotubes"
January 18, 2006 Dr. Patrick Hoffman
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
"Nanostructuring technologies - physical and chemical aspects"
October 12, 2005 Dr. Stanley Williams
Hewlett-Packard
"Defect Tolerant Nanoelectronics"
December 8, 2005 Dr. Toni Taylor
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Ultra-fast Dynamics in Complex Materials"
December 7, 2005 Dr. Ray Baughman
University of Texas at Dallas
"Draw-State Fabricated Nanotube Yarns and Textiles for Artificial Muscle, Structural, Energy Storage, Energy Harvesting, Display, Field Emission and other Applications"
October 5, 2005 Dr. Frank Zamborini
University of Louisville
"Stynthesis of One-Dimensional Metal Nanostructures Directly on Surfaces"
October 3, 2005 Dr. Padma Gopalan
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Functional Organic Nano-Materials for Photonics"
September 7, 2005 Dr. William King
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Thermal Processing and Thermal Measurements at Extremely Small Scales"
July 28, 2005 Dr. John Dismukes
The University of Toledo
"Growth and Structure of Conical Carbon NanoFiber"
April 11, 2005 Dr. Arun Majumdar
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Thermal and Fluidic Transport in Nanostructured Materials and Devices"
April 6, 2005 Dr. Todd Emrick
University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Nanoparticles and Amphiphilic Grapt Copolymers for Interfacial Assembly and Encapsulation"
May 4, 2005 Dr. Hector Abruna
Cornell University
"Redox and Photoactive Nanometric Building Blocks"
March 23, 2005 Dr. Dimos Poulikakos
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
"Transport phenomena in emerging technologies involving multiscale and multiphase physics: examples from nanoscience and biomedicine"
February 16, 2005 Dr. Matthew Neurock
University of Virginia
"Computational Elucidation and Design of Reactive Nanoscale Systems"
January 31, 2005 Dr. Timothy Cale
Rensselaer Polytechnic University
"Multiscale Modeling: A Grain Focus"
January 13, 2005 Dr. Gang Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion"
December 2, 2004 Dr. David Citrin
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Nanoplasmonics"
October 6, 2004 Dr. Chai-Ling Chein
Johns Hopkins University
"Spin Torque and Nanorings"
September 1, 2004 Dr. Junichiro Kono
Rice University
"Controlling the Metallicity of Carbon Nanotubes through the Aharonov-Bohm Phase"
April 14, 2004 Dr. Karl Sohlberg
Drexel University
"Complex catalytic materials: insights from first-principles calculations"
March 17, 2004 Dr. Daniel Morse
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Biocatalytic Routes to Structure-Directed Nanofabrication of Siloxanes, Organometallics and Semiconductors"
March 15, 2004 Dr. Richard Crooks
Texas A&M University
"Dendrimer-Encapsulated Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications to Catalysis"
February 13, 2004 Dr. Rosalyn Berne
University of Virginia
"In Consideration of Core Beliefs Embedded in the Nanotechnology Quest"
February 4, 2004 Dr. Nicholas Abbott
University of Wisconsin
"Amplification of Bio/Molecular Interactions using Nanostructured Surfaces and Liquid Crystals"
January 21, 2004 Dr. Nicholas Giordano
Purdue University
"Transport Properties of 1D Ferromagnetic Wires"
December 3, 2003 Dr. Steven Nutt
University of Southern California
"Bimodal Nanocrystalline Al-Mg Alloys for High Strength and Enhanced Toughness"
November 5, 2003 Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay
University of California, Los Angeles
"Molecular Compasses and Gyroscopes: Design, Preparation and Testing"
October 15, 2003 Dr. Stephen Pennycook
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Navigating the Nanoworld through Z Contract STEM"
October 7, 2003 Dr. Dan Feldheim
North Carolina State University
"The Interface of Solid-State Chemistry and Molecular Biology: from RNA-Mediated Evolution of Materials to Nanoparticle Electronics"
September 22, 2003 Dr. Deyu Li
University of California, Berkeley
"Phonon and Molecular Transport in Individual Nanowires and Nanotubes"
August 21, 2003 Dr. David Jamieson
University of Melbourne
"Progress towards the construction of a solid state quantum computer in silicon"
September 10, 2003 Dr. Lucas Novotny
University of Rochester
"Optics on the Nanometer Scale"
September 3, 2003 Dr. Sean Washburn
University of North Carolina
"Hands-on Testing of Nanometer Electro-mechanical Machines"
August 27, 2003 Dr. Gari Harris
"The Micro-Nano Transition No SMALL Task"
June 23, 2003 Dr. Max Lagally
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Nanoscience and Technology on Silicon: Directed Assembly, Strain Engineering, and Materials Integration"
June 10, 2003 Dr. Rodney Ruoff
Northwestern University
"Mechanics of Nanostructures and the Nascent Field of Nanorobotics"
April 16, 2003 Dr. Tobias Hertel
Fritz Haber Instit der MPG, Berlin
"Carbon Nanotubes: Materials for Basic Science and Future Technologies and Biology"
April 9, 2003 Dr. Dan Feldheim
North Carolina State University
"Nanometer-sized Materials and Biology"
March 31, 2003 Dr. Carl Thompson
M.I.T.
"Stress and Structure Evolution During Film Formation; Adatoms to Nano-clusters to Films"
March 31, 2003 Dr. William King
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Thermomechanical Formation of Polymer Nanostructures"
March 19, 2003 Dr. Chris Palmstrom
University of Minnesota
"Growth and Characterization of Ferromagnetic Metal/Compound Semiconductor Heterostructures: a Path Towards Spintronics"
March 17, 2003 Dr. Velimir Radmilovic
University of California, Berkeley
"TEM and Calphad Assisted Alloy Design"
February 26, 2003 Dr. Alain Diebold
International SEMATECH
"Metrology and Characterization Requirements and Challenges for the Nano-World of Integrated Circuits"
February 24, 2003 Dr. Keith Gubbins
North Carolina State University
"Molecular Simulation of Confined Nano-Phases: Adsorption, Phase Changes and Chemical Reactions in Nano-Porous Materials"
February 19, 2003 Dr. Josef Michl
University of Colorado
"Artificial Surface-Mounted Molecular Rotors"
January 29, 2003 Dr. Mark Lundstrom
Purdue University
"Nanoscale Transistors: Their physics, technology, and future"
November 20, 2002 Dr. Steven Brueck
University of New Mexico
"There are No Fundamental Limits to Optical Lithography"
October 21, 2002 Dr. Harold Craighead
Cornell University
"Nanofabricated Devices for Cellular and Molecular Analysis"
September 11, 2002 Dr. Peter Cummings
Vanderbilt University
"Theory, Modeling, and Simulation in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology"
May 22, 2002 Dr. Michael Ramsey
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Micro- and Nanofabricated Fluidic Devices for the Acquisition of Biochemical Information"
April 24, 2002 Dr. Naomi Halas
Rice University
"Metal Nanoshells: Constructing Optics 'From the Dipole Up'"
March 13, 2002 Dr. Christopher Murray
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"Preparation and Properties Nanocrystals and Nanocrystal Superlattices: Building with Artificial Atoms"
February 20, 2002 Dr. Charlie Hotz
Quantum Dot Corporation
"Quantum Dot Technology for Biological Applications"
December 5, 2001 Dr. Louis Germinario
Eastman Chemical Company
"Structure-property Relationships of Nanostructured Polymeric Materials"
November 14, 2001 Dr. Michael Simpson
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Controlled Synthesis and Directed Assembly for the Realization of Functional Molecular-Scale Devices
October 24, 2001 Dr. Mark Law
University of Florida
"Shallow Junction Technology: Defects in Silicon"
May 3, 2001 Dr. Douglas Lowndes
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences: A Partnership with Universities"
April 11, 2001 Dr. Chuck Black
IBM Research
"Nanometer-Scale Self-Assembly for Microelectronics Technologies"
February 21, 2001 Dr. Stefan Zollner
Motorolo SPS
"Optical, Vibrational, and Structural Properties of High-k Transition Metal Oxide"
December 13, 2000 Dr. Martin Green
Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies
"Finding Alternate Gate Dielectrics to Replace SiO2 in Integrated Circuit Devices: A Classic Materials Science Case Study"
November 8, 2000 Dr. Elias Greenbaum
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Nanoscale Photosynthesis and its Application to Biomolecular Optoelectronic Materials"
April 11, 2000 Dr. Betram Batlogg
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
"Materials Research for Communication Technology"
