Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2005 APS March Meeting
Monday–Friday, March 21–25, 2005; Los Angeles, CA
Session D4: The New DOE Centers for Nanoscale Science |
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Sponsoring Units: GIMS DMP Chair: A.T. Macrander, Argonne National Lab Room: LACC 515A |
Monday, March 21, 2005 2:30PM - 3:06PM |
D4.00001: The Center for Nanoscale Materials Invited Speaker: |
Monday, March 21, 2005 3:06PM - 3:42PM |
D4.00002: The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Invited Speaker: Douglas Lowndes The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will be the first DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center to begin operation, with construction to be completed in April 2005 and initial operations in October 2005. The CNMS' scientific program has been developed through workshops with the national community, with the goal of creating a highly collaborative research environment to accelerate discovery and drive technological advances. Research at the CNMS is organized under seven Scientific Themes selected to address challenges to understanding and to exploit particular ORNL strengths (see http://cnms.ornl.gov). These include extensive synthesis and characterization capabilities for soft, hard, nanostructured, magnetic and catalytic materials and their composites; neutron scattering at the Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor; computational nanoscience in the CNMS' Nanomaterials Theory Institute and utilizing facilities and expertise of the Center for Computational Sciences and the new Leadership Scientific Computing Facility at ORNL; a new CNMS Nanofabrication Research Laboratory; and a suite of unique and state-of-the-art instruments to be made reliably available to the national community for imaging, manipulation, and properties measurements on nanoscale materials in controlled environments. The new research facilities will be described together with the planned operation of the user research program, the latter illustrated by the current ``jump start'' user program that utilizes existing ORNL/CNMS facilities. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, March 21, 2005 3:42PM - 4:18PM |
D4.00003: The Center for Functional Nanomaterials Invited Speaker: |
Monday, March 21, 2005 4:18PM - 4:54PM |
D4.00004: The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT): One scientific community focused on nanoscience integration Invited Speaker: As a lead federal agency for the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the Department of Energy (DOE) is developing a network of Nanoscale Science and Research Centers (NSRC). NSRCs are national user facilities located at DOE National Laboratories providing open access for university, laboratory, and industrial researchers to work together to advance nanoscience. The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), operated jointly by Sandia National Laboratories and Alamos National Laboratory, has a technical vision focused on integrating scientific disciplines and expertise across length scales going from the nano world to the world around us. It is often said that nanotechnology has the potential to change almost everything we do. This prophecy will come to pass only when we can understand, predict, and control the coupling of nanoscale functions with the macroscale world. Building on competencies in nanoelectronics \& nanophotonics, complex functional nanomaterials, nanomechanics, nano-bio-micro interfaces, and theory and simulation, CINT provides expertise and tools required to tackle the most challenging scientific problems including energy transfer across multiple length scales, combining top-down and bottom-up assembly, and interfacing biological and synthetic systems. Researchers wishing to explore these important topics can apply to use experimental and computation resources housed in the CINT's 96,000 square foot Core Facility and its two physical Gateway Facilities connecting the CINT community with resources at each laboratory. CINT facilities include an integration lab for nano- and micro-scale patterning, nano-scale synthesis ranging from molecular beam epitaxy to biochemical processes, characterization tools for spatially resolved and ultra-fast time scale measurements, and computational hardware and specialized algorithms. Unique to the CINT user program are microfabricated Discovery Platforms specifically designed to study nanomaterials and their integration with micro-scale architectures. The CINT Gateway Facilities connect the user community to specialized laboratory resources including microfabrication, biosciences, and user facilities for neutron scattering, high magnetic fields studies, and combustion research. Full operation of CINT is planned for 2006. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, March 21, 2005 4:54PM - 5:30PM |
D4.00005: The Molecular Foundry: a nanoscience user facility Invited Speaker: In this talk, I will describe current and planned activities at the Molecular Foundry, a new national nanoscience center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory funded by the Department of Energy. The Foundry's mission is to provide scientists in academia, the national labs, and industry with resources--materials, instrumentation, and access to scientific staff--for synthesis, characterization, and assembly of nanostructures. User support and in-house research will be carried out by staff and postdoctoral fellows in six closely coupled facilities: the Inorganic, Organic, and Biological Nanostructures Facilities for synthesis, preparation, and assembly; the Nanofabrication Facility for processing and integration; the Imaging and Manipulation Facility; and the Theory Facility for understanding and modeling. The diversity across these facilities reflects the multidisciplinary nature of nanoscience and will provide a unique environment for discovery and development. After summarizing the Foundry program, I will present some examples of Foundry research during its initial ‘ramp-up’ phase. In particular, recent results from several on-going user and internal projects of the Theory Facility highlighting complex physical phenomena at the nanoscale will be discussed. These projects include investigation of fluorescence shifts in nanostructures, level alignment at the metal-organic interfaces, and electron transport through single molecules at finite bias. [Preview Abstract] |
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