5th Annual Conference on

FOUNDATIONS OF NANOSCIENCE:

SELF-ASSEMBLED ARCHITECTURES AND DEVICES (FNANO08)

 

DATES of FNANO08: April 22 – April 25, 2008

FNANO08 Announcement: [PDF] [TXT] [HTML] http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/FNANO08/FNANO08announce.html

FNANO08 Webpage: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/

 

LOCATION: Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah

HOTEL Accommodations: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/FNANO08/venue.html

FNANO08 Conference Registration pages

If you are a Contributing Speaker, regular participant, or student participant (and NOT a Track Chair, Track co-Chair, Invited Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Conference Organizer, or Assistant): click here:

                   http: //fnano08.cs.duke.edu/registration/direct.php

 

á  ONLY If you are a Track Chair, Track co-Chair, Invited Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Conference Organizer, or Assistant: click here:

                   http: //fnano08.cs.duke.edu/registration/indirect.php

 

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and Nanorex, Inc.

 

SPONSORING SOCIETY: International Society For Nananoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE).

FNANO Program Schedule:

 

LOCATION: Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, UT,

 

Dates of FNANO Conference: April 22 - April 25, 2008.

 

FNANO08 Program Chair: John H. Reif <reif@cs.duke.edu>, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC

 

FNANO08 Program CoChair:

á  Paul Weiss <stm@psu.edu>, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

 

Conference Reception Desk: Location: Outside Ballroom

 

 

Talk Durations:

*Invited Talks: (20 min.+ 5 min question period after talk) = 25 min. total duration

Keynote Talks: (30 min.+ 5 min question period after talk) = 35 min. total duration

 

Poster Presentations: During assigned Track Poster Presentation Times & at 6 PM – 7 PM of day of Track, as indicated below.

 

 

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

 

Track on Top-down Meets Bottom-up, Session A: 8:30 AM – 9:20 AM Tuesday, April 22

¤   Description: Talks & posters in this track combine bottom-up self-assembly with top-down methods such as lithography or an external patterning force (e.g., electromagnetic field or chemical gradient).

Duration: (1 Keynote Talk + 2 other talks) = 35+25 min. = 50 min.

Location: Ballroom 1

 

Keynote Talk: Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination

Speaker: Peter Stang Stang@chem.utah.edu (Dept of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah)

 

Invited Talk: Building Devices Layer-by-Layer

Speaker: Paula Hammond hammond@mit.edu (Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA)

 

Refreshment & Poster Session 9:20 AM – 10:20 AM Tuesday, April 22

Location: Outside Ballroom 1

 

Posters for Track on Top-down Meets Bottom-up

Poster: Fabrication of Micro-Clusters Based on Close-Packed Monolayer

Presenter: Sunghoon Kwon salee30@gmail.com (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)

Authors: Seung Ah Lee and Sunghoon Kwon (Seoul National University)

 

Poster: Chemically Directed Surface Alignment and Wiring of Self-Assembled Nanoelectrical Circuits

Presenter: Jianfei Liu ljf6362@gmail.com (Department of Chemical Engineering)

Authors: Jianfei Liu, Hector Becerril, Michael Lee, Kyle Nelson, Elliot Bird, Laurie Hutchins, Hiram Conley, Dean Wheeler, Robert Davis, Adam Woolley, Matthew Linford and John Harb (Brigham Young University)

 

Poster: Nanomanufacturing Using Template Directed Assembly of Nanoscale Elements

Presenter: Joey Mead Joey_Mead@uml.edu (Department of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA)

Authors: Joey Mead (University of Massachusetts Lowell) Ahmed Busnaina (Northeastern University), Glen Miller (University of New Hampshire), Carol Barry (University of Massachusetts Lowell), Nicol McGruer(Northeastern University) and Jacqueline Isaacs (Northeastern University)

 

Track on Top-down Meets Bottom-up, Session B: 10:20 AM – 11:10 AM Tuesday, April 22

¤   Description: Talks & posters in this track combine bottom-up self-assembly with top-down methods such as lithography or an external patterning force (e.g., electromagnetic field or chemical gradient).

Duration: (2 other talks) = 2*25 min. = 50 min.

Location: Ballroom 1

 

Invited Talk: Nascent Metal Atom-Molecule Interactions - From Nanostructure Creation to Fabrication of Device Contacts

Speaker: David Allara dla3@psu.edu (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)

 

Contributed Talk: Single-Electron Transistors made by chemical patterning of silicon dioxide substrates and selective deposition of gold nanoparticles

Presenter: Gleb Finkelstein gleb@duke.edu (Physics Department, Duke University, Durham, NC)

Authors: Ulas Coskun, Henok Mebrahtu, Paul Huang, David Sebba, Jeremy Huang, Adriana Biasco, Alex Makarovski, Anne Lazarides, Thom LaBean and Gleb Finkelstein (Duke University)

 

Track Self-assembly of Peptide-Protein Nanostructures, Session A: 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM Tuesday,

April 22

¤   Track Chair: Mehmet Sarikaya <sarikaya@u.washington.edu>, (Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA)

¤   This Track is supported by UW-MRSEC via NSF

Duration: (2 other talks) = 50 min.

Location: Ballroom 1

 

Invited Talk: Molecular specifications for protein and polypeptides which interact with and direct the assembly of inorganic solids

Speaker: John Evans jse1@nyu.edu (Laboratory for Chemical Physics, New York University, NY)

 

Invited Talk: Modelling binding affinity at peptide-surface interfaces: the role of mutations

Speaker: Tiff Walsh walsh.tiffany@googlemail.com (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK)

 

Lunch Break: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Tuesday, April 22

 

Track on Self-Assembled Surface Chemistry: 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM Tuesday, April 22

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

¤   CoChair: Paul Weiss <stm@psu.edu> (Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)

Duration: (1 Keynote Talk + 2 other talks) = 35+2*25 min. = 1hr 25 min.

Location: Ballroom 1

 

Keynote Talk: Microscale Self-Assembly of Mammalian Cells for Bio-Electronic Integration 

Speaker: Richard Mathies rich@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California)

Authors: Erik S. Douglas, Ravi A. Chandra, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Matthew B. Francis, and Richard A. Mathies (UCB/UCSF Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley)

 

Invited Talk: Carbon films enable light-directed synthesis of high-density DNA arrays on metal substrates

Speaker: Lloyd M. Smith smith@chem.wisc.edu (Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI)

 

Contributed Talk: Block-oligonucleotide Brushes: Controlled Structure and Hybridization Properties

Speaker: Dmitri Petrovykh petrovykh@nrl.navy.mil (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC)

Authors: Dmitri Petrovykh (University of Maryland and Naval Research Laboratory), Aric Opdahl (University of Wisconsin) and Lloyd Whitman (Naval Research Laboratory)

 

Track on Viral Self-Assembly: 2:25 PM – 3:50 PM Tuesday April 22

¤   Track Chair: Adam Zlotnick <adam-zlotnick@ouhsc.edu>, Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

Duration: (1 Keynote Talk + 2 other talks) = 35+2*25 min. = 1hr 25 min.

Location: Ballroom 1

 

Keynote Talk: Cellular Automata and Molecular Automata that Infect Cells (Viruses)

Speaker: Alasdair C. Steven stevena@mail.nih.gov (Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD)

 

Invited Talk: Viral Particles as Programmable Nanobuilding Blocks:  Construction and Functionalization

Speaker: Nicole Steinmetz nicoles@scripps.edu Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla CA

 

Invited Talk: Determining Asymmetric Structures within Icosahedrally Symmetric Shells

Speaker: David Belnap belnap@chem.byu.edu Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.

 

Refreshment & Poster Session 3:50 PM – 4:45 PM Tuesday, April 22

Location: Outside Ballroom 1

 

Posters on Track on Self-Assembled Surface Chemistry

Poster: Dipole amplification: a new principle for the self-assembly of asymmetric monomers on metal surfaces

Presenter: Owain Vaughan ophv2@cam.ac.uk (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)

Authors: Owain Vaughan, Ali Alavi, Federico Williams and Richard Lambert (University of Cambridge)

 

Poster: Growth and Stability of Siloxane Self Assembled Monolayers on Gallium Nitride

Presenter: Christina Arisio carisio@nd.edu (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Notre Dame, IN)

Authors: Christina Arisio, Catherine Cassou and Marya Lieberman (University of Notre Dame)

 

Poster: NanNanoshaving and Nanografting of Water Soluble Polymers on Glass Surfaces

Presenter: Hiram Conley hiramconley@gmail.com (Brigham Young University, Provo, UT)

Authors: Hiram Conley, Brian Davis, Katherine Hurd, Jodi Knoble, Matthew Linford and Robert Davis (Brigham Young University)

 

Poster: Surface modification for DNA nanostructure attachment on silicon

Presenter: Koshala Sarveswaran, ksarvesw@nd.edu (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN)

Authors: Koshala Sarveswaran (University of Notre Dame), Alexi Lykoudis (St Joseph High School), Marya Lieberman (University of Notre Dame)

 

Poster: Selecting and Driving Nanoscale Assembly in Monolayer Films through Tailored Intermolecular Interactions

Presenter: Thomas Mullen, tmullen@psu.edu (Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)

Authors: T. J. Mullen, C. Srinivasan, M. J. Shuster, S. E. Brunker, L. M. Dominak, J. N. Hohman, A. A. Dameron,
M. W. Horn, C. D. Keating, A. M. Andrews, and P. S. Weiss (The Pennsylvania State University)

 

Poster for (Special) Track on Cluster-Assembled Materials

Poster: Exploring photonic properties of multi-component nanoparticle system through DNA directed self-assembly

Presenter: Qiangbin Wang, qiangbin.wang@asu.edu (The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)

Authors: Qiangbin Wang, Yan Liu, Jaswinder Sharma and Hao Yan (The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University)

 

(No Posters for Track on Viral Self-Assembly)

 

(Special) Track on Cluster-Assembled Materials: 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM Tuesday, April 22

¤   Track Chair: Paul S. Weiss <stm@psu.edu>, (Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)

Duration: (1 Keynote Talk+ 1 invited talk) = 35+1*25 min = 1hr

Location: Ballroom 1

 

Keynote Talk: From Superatoms to Cluster Assembled Materials

Speaker: A. Welford Castleman, Jr. awc@psu.edu (Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Pennsylvania State Univers