2^nd Annual Conference on

FOUNDATIONS OF NANOSCIENCE:

SELF-ASSEMBLED ARCHITECTURES AND DEVICES (FNANO05)

LOCATION: Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, UT,

DATES of FNANO05: noon April 24 - noon April 28, 2005

FNANO05 Announcement: [PDF] [TXT] [HTML]

FNANO05 Webpage: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/FNANO05/

FNANO05 Schedule: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/FNANO05/FNANO05schedule.html

FNANO05 Conference Registration page: http://events.duke.edu/fnano

FNANO Schedule:

Conference Reception Desk: Outside Ballroom I (1:00 PM-6:00 PM Sunday April 24)

FNANO Track on Self-Assembled Surface Chemistry

Track Chair: Lloyd Smith <smith@chem.wisc.edu>, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

CoChair:Paul Weiss <stm@psu.edu>, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

FNANO Track on Self-Assembled Surface Chemistry, Session A (1:00 PM-1:35 PM Sunday April 24): Ballroom I

1:00 PM-1:30 PM Track Keynote Talk: Creating Nanostructures through Self- and Directed Assembly,

Speaker: Paul Weiss <stm@psu.edu>, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

(5 min question period after talk)

Refreshments & Self-Assembled Surface Chemistry Posters (1:35 PM-2:25PM Sunday April 24): Outside Ballroom I

Poster: Surface modification and functionalization of polymer coated colloidal nanocrystals with poly(ethylene glycol)

Presenter: Ralph A. Sperling and Teresa Pellegrino, Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Jimmy K. Li, Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany and Center for Nano Biomedicine Technology, Department of Biomedial Engineering, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

Walter H. Chang, Center for Nano Biomedicine Technology, Department of Biomedial Engineering, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

Wolfgang J. Parak, Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich,

Germany

Poster: Bio-inspired template-free synthesis of a highly doped photoconductive thin film of Cobalt hydroxide with an exceptionally long minority carrier half-life.

Presenter: Kris Roth<Rothkm@gmail.com>, 8716 Sand Point Way NE Apt.# 10,

Seattle, WA 98115

Authors:

Kristian Roth, University of California Santa Barbara

Daniel Morse, University of California Santa Barbara

FNANO Track on Self-Assembled Surface Chemistry, Session B (2:25PM-4:05PM Sunday April 24): Ballroom I

2:25PM-2:45PM Invited Talk: The neurochip: An advanced nanomaterial for the development of novel biosensors and functionally-directed proteomics

Speaker: Anne Milasincic Andrews <ama@chem.psu.edu>, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Authors: Anne Milasincic Andrews <ama11@psu.edu>, Matthew E. Szapacs, Ann-Sofie Cans, Amit Vaish, Jennifer L. Han, Mary E. Anderson and P. S. Weiss.

2:50PM-3:10PM Invited Talk: Self-Assembly and Molecular Electronics of Two Terminal Devices

Speaker: Ranganathan Shashidhar <rshashidhar@geo-centers.com>

Corporate R&D Center, Geo-Centers,

Inc., Arlington, VA 22203

Authors:

R. Shashidhar, Geo-Centers, Inc., 4301 N Fairfax Drive, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22203

Jim Kushmerick, Code 6900, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375

David Long, Geo-Centers, Inc., 4301 N Fairfax Drive, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22203

Amy Blum, Geo-Centers, Inc., 4301 N Fairfax Drive, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22203

3:15PM-3:35PM Contributed Talk: Self-Assembled Biomolecule Nanopatterns

Contact: Bo Gao <bgao@nd.edu>, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Notre Dame, 251 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Authors:

Bo Gao, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame

Mary Finn, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame

Patricia Clark, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame

Marya Lieberman, Department of Chemist