Speaker Abstracts and Bios
Ahmed Busnaina, William Lincoln Smith Professor and Director, NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Northeastern University, "High-rate Directed Assembly of Nanoelements".
Robert E. Cohen, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, "Functional Thin Film Coatings Based on Polymer Multilayers and Block Copolymers."
Martin Culpepper, Rockwell International Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Miniature machines for nano-scale research and manufacturing: A new model for equipment and instrumentation."
Michael Ellenbecker, Director, Toxics Use Reduction Institute, University Massachusetts Lowell, "Evaluation of Exposure to Nanomaterials".
Mike Heller, Professor Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, “Turning Bio-Derivatized Nanoparticles into Higher Order Structures and Devices.”
Steven Hoey, Environment, Safety and Health Manager for the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, "Department of Energy Nanoscience Research Centers Approach to Nanomaterial ESH."
Antony Klapper, Partner, Reed Smith, "Risk Mitigation Strategies For Companies Manufacturing Engineered Nanomaterials: A Legal Perspective".
James Lee, Helen C. Kurtz Professor, Director, NSF Center for Advanced Polymer and Composite Engineering, Ohio State University, "Affordable Polymer Micro/Nanomanufacturing for Biosensors and Drug Delivery Devices."
Samuel Lipson, Director of Environmental Health, Cambridge Biosafety Committee, Cambridge Public Health Department, "Local Oversight of Emerging Technologies, The Cambridge Experiment".
Shinji Matsui, Professor Nanotechnologist, Laboratory of Advanced Science and Technology for Industry, University of Hyogo, "RoomTemperature Nanoimprint Technology and Mold Repair by Focused Ion Beam".
Joey Mead, Professor, Plastics Engineering, University Massachusetts Lowell, "Nanomanufacturing with Polymers".
Glen Miller, Professor of Organic Chemistry and Materials Science, University of New Hampshire, "Reversible Chemical Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes for Greater Dispersion (sans Surfactant) and Processability".
Diane Mundt, Senior Manager, Environ, "Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials: Are the Workers Safe?"
Mizuhisa Nihei, Senior Researcher, Nanotechnology Research Center, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., “Carbon Nanotube Via Interconnects Fabricated by Novel Damascene Process”.
Jin-Goo Park, Professor of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea, "Reverse Imprinting Technology for Electrochemical Plastic Biochip Fabrication."
Brent Segal, CoFounder and Chief Operating Officer, Nantero, Inc., Carbon Nanotube Metrics for Nanomanufacturing
Benoit Simard, Principal Research Officer, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, "NRC’s approach at developing SWNT-based high performance materials".
Tom Tiano, Strategic Program Manager, Nanomaterials, Foster Miller, “Carbon Nanotube-Based Nonwoven Felts for EMI Shielding.”
Mark Tuominen, Professor, Department of Physics, Co-Director of the NSF Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing and MassNanoTech, Director National Nanomanufacturing Network, University of Massachusetts Amherst, "The Nanomanufacture and Physics of Nanomagnets Made by via Block Copolymer Templates".