Center For Functional Nanomaterials

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NSRC Rollout
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NSRC Roll-Out Update

• Website
• Developed common format to be used on all NSRC
  web sites.
• One-Page Center Description
• Established design for one-page flyer one for
  each center and a separate one for the NSRC
  program.
• Professional Society Contacts
• Identified set of organizations and assigned
  point of contact for each.
• Vugraph Briefing Package
• Short and full version in preparation
• February Workshop

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NSRC Updates
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Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne

• Jumpstarting User Program
• Activating advisory committees
• Facilities identified for jumpstart user
  program
• Coordinating user interface with APS IPNS
  one-stop
• Planning FY2003 Nanoscience Workshops CNM
  Summer School

• Launching CNM research areas

• CNM Building is funded by the State of Illinois
• Attaches to Advanced Photon Source
• gt50 of planned state funds have been
  appropriated
• Title I Design 50 complete Construction
  Manager selected
• Start of construction anticipated Summer 2003
• DOE approved CD-0 for Equipment Project
• CDR in preparation, anticipating Lehman review
  in March
• Complete Nanoprobe Beamline design by September

For information contact Sam Bader bader_at_anl.gov,
630.252.4960 http//nano.anl.gov/, nano_at_anl.gov
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BNL Center For Functional Nanomaterials

• Project
• Mission Need Approved (CD-0)
• Conceptual Design in process, CDR draft
  mid-November
• Lehman Review tentative early February 2003
• Engineering start (CD-1) anticipated March 2003
• Construction start projected FY2005

• Workshops
• Major BNL Workshop-March 2002
• Other workshops
• Workshop on Applications of Synchrotron Radiation
  in Nanoscience and Technology, May 23, 2001
• Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale, Chemical
  Sciences sponsored workshop, January 2002
• EPENS, International Workshop on Electron-Phonon
  Effect in Nanosystems, September 23-25, 2002
• CESP Nanomagnetic Materials Workshop, October
  21-22, 2002
• Nanotechnology Business Roadmap, October 15, 2002
• Nanoscience Writers Roundtable, October 30, 2002
• LI Business Alliance Workshop, December 2002

• Scientific Thrust Areas
• Strongly Correlated Oxides
• Magnetic Nanoassemblies
• Nanocatalyst Materials
• Charge Injection and Transport
• Nanostructured Organic Films
• Applications of Nanoscience

• Jumpstart
• Program planned
• PSP, SAC established
• Preliminary hires targeted
• Laboratories will be available in cluster areas
  Electron Microscopy, Materials Synthesis,
  Nanopatterning, Proximal Probes, Ultrafast
  Optical Sources, Nanocenter-NSLS GU Program,
  Theory/Computation

Unique Facilities NSLS TEM LEAF
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The Molecular FoundryA. P. Alivisatos, Director

• Foundry Building
• Near NCEM and Materials Sciences Laboratories
• Design complete Q1 2003
• Construction start Q4 2003
• Beneficial occupancy Q1 2006
• Full operations Q4 2006
• Theory and most user offices on 3rd floor
• Facilities
• Inorganic Nanostructures
• Nanofabrication
• Organic, Polymer/Biopolymer Synthesis
• Biological Nanostructures
• Imaging and Manipulation
• Theory

?-User Program-2003 6 facilities with limited
equipment Hire lead scientists Call for
proposals short-term and long term
collaborators Outreach
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Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

• Science Thrusts
• Nanoelectronics/nanophotonics
• Nano/Bio/Micro Interfaces
• Complex Functional Nanomaterials
• Nanomechanics
• Theory and Simulation

Core Facility
Gateway to Los Alamos

• User Program
• CINT Management Team
• Joint laboratory MOU
• Governance Board
• Scientific Advisory Committee

• Construction Project
• CD-1 Approved 6/02
• Core Title I in progress
• Gateway Perf. Spec. initiated
• Review scheduled for 4/03
• Construction start 1/04

• FY03 Jump-Start
• National User Facilities
• Major NNSA Facilities
• User Agreements (IP, access, training)

One community focused on nanoscience integration
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Center For Nanophase Materials Sciences
Integrates Nanoscale Science with synergistic
national research needs in Neutron Science
Synthesis Integration of soft and
hard materials Theory / Modeling / Simulation
Jump Start Program Development Plan with focus
on Nanofabrication Synthetic Bio-Inspired
Macro- molecular Materials Catalysis Nanot
ubes and Related Materials Nanoscale Magnetism
and Collective Behavior Oxide Materials
Integration Nanoscale Imaging and
Manipulation Theory / Modeling / Simulation
Project Status 90 design complete under
review Equipment suite identified CD-2
approved CD-3 scheduled for Feb. 2003 Second
Planning Workshop 315 registrants from 88
institutions Greatest Challenges
Opportunities identified with scientific
community
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NSRC February 03 Workshop
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Renaissance Hotel Washington, D.C. February
26-28, 2003
A forum for communication among agencies,
policymakers, and the scientific community
Learn about national priorities in research
and nanoscale science and engineering from key
Senators and Representatives, the President's
Science Advisor, and funding agency and
scientific community leaders Learn about
research opportunities in nanoscale science and
engineering at the DOE Nanoscale Science
Research Centers and related facilities
Participate in the first national users
meeting for DOE's Nanoscale Science Research
Centers
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Program Highlights
Keynote presentations on nanoscale science and
national competitiveness by John Marburger
(Director of the White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy) and Ray Orbach (Director
of the DOE Office of Science) Science and
industry sessions with keynote presentations by
nanoscience and nanotechnology leaders including
Nobelist Richard Smalley (Rice), George
Whitesides (Harvard), Gabor Somorjai (Berkeley),
Larry Bock (Nanosys, Inc.), and Tom Theis (IBM)
Perspectives from key politicians
including Senators and Representatives with
oversight responsibility for science and
technology Agency presentations on the
National Nanotechnology Initiative and research
opportunities in nanoscale science including a
panel discussion and question and answer session
A banquet including a presentation on
future priorities for federal research by a
leading political spokesperson Poster
presentations from the NSRCs including a student
poster session A users meeting with
presentations by Patricia Dehmer, Director of the
DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and the
center directors
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Renaissance Hotel Washington, D.C. February
26-28, 2003 Announcement Preliminary
Program Workshop Registration Hotel
Information Nanoscale Science Research Centers
National Nanotechnology Initiative Office of
Basic Energy Sciences http//www.ornl.gov/doe_nsr
c_workshop/