WTEC Workshop Report on

R&D Status and Trends in Nanoparticles, Nanostructured Materials, and Nanodevices in the United States

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Overview of the WTEC Study

• (R.W. Siegel, WTEC Panel Chair, RPI)

3. Review of U.S. Government Activities and Interests

• Summary of Participating U.S. Government Agencies Activities (M.C. Roco)
• National Science Foundation
• NSF Overview (M.C. Roco)
• NSF Nanoparticle Synthesis and Processing (M.C. Roco)
• NSF/ENG Interest in Nanotechnology (M.C. Roco)
• NSF National Nanofabrication Users Network (R.P. Khosla)
• Nanotechnology in NSF/ENG/ECS (D.L. Crawford)
• Nanostructured Materials Research in NSF/MPS/DMR (B.A. MacDonald)
• Chemistry Division (NSF/MPS/PHY) Investment in Nanoscience (J. Osteryoung)
• Physics Division (NSF/MPS/PHY) Activities in Nanotechnology (D. Caldwell)
• NSF NANO-95 for Instrumentation (L.J. Inglehart)
• NSF/BIO Directorate Support of Nanotechnology (K. Koehler)
• Nanotechnology in Bioengineering (NSF/ENG/BES) (G. Vermont)
• Biomedical Engineering & Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities (BERAPD) (G. Devey)
• NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (M.J. Foster)
• ONR Materials Div. Funding of R & D on Nanostructured Materials (L. Kabacoff)
• DOE Micro and Nano Engineering Research (R. Goulard)
• ARO Activities in Nanotechnology (M.A. Stroscio)
• AFOSR Research in Nanoscience (M. Chipley)
• DOC Role in Nanotechnology Research (A.D. Mitchell)
• NIST Activities in Nanotechnology (R.D. Shull)
• NASA Nanotechnology Activities (D.L. Jan)
• NASA/Ames Work on Nanotechnology (M. Meyyappan)
• NIH Nanotechnology Activities (R. DuBois, D. Jaron)
• DARPA ULTRA Electronics Program (G. Pomrenke)
• BMDO Nanotechnology Activities (G. Hammer)
• Connection to other Fields and Education Issues (G. Poehlein, NSF)

4. Synthesis and Assembly

• Overview (E. Hu, WTEC Panel Co-Chair, UCSB)
• Soft Lithography (G.M. Whitesides, Harvard)
• Nanostructured Ceramics Through Self-Assembly (I. Aksay, Princeton)
• Synthesis of Nanoparticles & their Agglomerates: Aerosol Reactors (S.K. Friedlander, UCLA)
• Semiconductor Nanocrystals (L. Brus, Columbia)
• Storage of Hydrogen in Powders with Nanosized Crystalline Domains (R.B. Schwarz, LANL)
• Nanostructure Processing of Advanced Catalytic Materials (J.Y. Ying, MIT)

5. Bulk Behavior

• Overview (C. Koch, WTEC panel, NC State)
• Nanostructured Bulk Materials: Synthesis, Processing, Properties, and Performance (B. Kear, Rutgers, and G. Skandan, Nanopowder Enterprises)
• Cost-Affordable Nanostructured Materials (F.H. Froes, IMAP, Univ. Idaho)
• Nanostructured Magnetic Materials (G.C. Hadjipanayis, Univ. Delaware)
• Nanocrystalline Soft Magnetic Alloys for Application in Electrical and Electronic Devices (V.R. Ramanan, ABB)

6. Dispersions and Coatings

• Overview (J. Mendel, WTEC Panel, Kodak)
• Dispersions and Coatings (P. Wiltzius, Lucent)
• Nanoparticle Dispersions (R. Brotzman, Nanophase Technologies)
• Nanostructured Coatings (M. Gell, Univ. Connecticut)

7. High Surface Area Materials

• Overview (D. Cox, WTEC Panel, Exxon
• Synthesis, Fundamental Properties and Applications of Nanocrystals, Sheets, and Fullerenes Based on Layered Transition Metal Chalcogenides (R.R. Chianelli, Univ. Texas)
• High Surface Area Materials (G.D. Stucky, UCSB)

8. Devices

• Overview (H. Gornonkin, WTEC Panel, Motorola)
• Organic Nanostructure Devices (S. Forrest, Princeton)
• Functional Nanostructures (R.S. Williams, HP)
• Si-based Nanodevices (K. Ismail, IBM, Univ. Cairo)
• Functional Molecular Structures and Devices (M. Reed, Yale)
• Whither Nanotechnology? (R.C. Merkle, Xerox)

9. Biological, Carbon and Theory Issues

• Overview (L. Jelinski, WTEC Panel, Cornell)
• Carbon-Based Nanostructures (M.S. Dresselhaus, MIT)
• Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Graphite Nanofibers (R.T.K. Baker, Northeastern)
• DNA Nanotechnology (N.C. Seeman, NYU)
• Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures (S. Sligar, Beckman Institute)
• Simulations and Modeling for the Nanoscale (U. Landman, GA Tech.)
• Nanoscale Theory and Simulation (W.A. Goddard, Caltech)

Glossary

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