Nanotechnology 101: What Technology, Business, and Government Professionals Should Know
Organizer: Skip Rung, ONAMI
Faculty:
Paul Burrow, Laboratory Fellow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Skip Rung, President and Executive Director, ONAMI

• Nanotechnology: Fact, Fiction, Fear and Fantasy (Burrows)
• The Evolution and Potential of Nanofabrication (Burrows)
• Molecular Nanotechnology: Organic Light Emitting Devices (Burrows)
• Impacts of Nanotechnology on the National and Local Economy (Rung)

Commercialization of Micro & Nano Technology for Growing Markets
Organizer: Michelle A. Girts – EnTranRight LLC, Vice Chair OR/SW
Chapter Licensing Executives Society

Faculty and Agenda:
Micro and Nano Technology and Business Success Kathy Miller – HP, Michael O’Halloran — CH2M HILL, & additional small and mid–sized company leaders
The US Legal Context , Nancy Erfle, Brian Flanagan, & John Mansfield – Schwabe Williamson and Wyatt
Micro and Nano Technology Commercialization in the Renewable Energy Industry, Ted Bernhard — Stoel Rives, Doug Morris – WiSpi.Net, Wayne Embree, Sustainability Investment Fund, & Goran Jovanovic, Oregon State University

• Welcome and Introduction: Lee Cheatham (WTC) and Skip Rung (ONAMI)
• Nanotech — Powering the Clean Tech Revolution: Sean Murdock, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Alliance
• Perspective of Nanoelectronics and Nanosystems: Kang L. Wang, UCLA, Director, MARCO Focus Center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics (FENA), Director, Western Institute for Nanoelectronics (WIN)
• Prospects for Molecular Electronics: R. Stanley Williams, Hewlett–Packard Laboratories Senior Fellow and Director of Quantum Science Research

Red Track
Semiconductor Manufacturing and Metrologies
Session Chair: Adam J. Schafer, Intel Corporation

• Transition Metal–doped ZnO Nanostructures, B. Seipel. A. Nadarajah, M. Vaga, R. Koenenkamp – Portland State University
• Nanoscale SiC Sintered Structures for Advanced Microsystems and Power Electronics Packaging, M. Bothara, S.V. Atre, S–J Park, R. German, T.S. Sudarshan, R. Radhakrishnan, O. Ostroverkhova – Oregon State University
• Low Cost Optical Microscopy–Based Nanoscale Metrology and Alignment, N. Meyer, C. Picciotto, J. Gao — Hewlett–Packard Co.

Green Track
Nanotechnology from Forest Resources and In Forest Products Manufacturing Operations
Session Chair: Pete Lancaster, Weyerhaeuser Corporation

• Bioengineering of Bacterial Cellulose Nanocomposites, M. Laborie, E. Brown — Washington State University
• Cellulosic Biomaterials: Perspectives for Development, W. Hamad –  FPInnovations, Paprican Division
• A DNA–based Method for Directed Self–Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals into Advanced Nanomaterials, A. Mangalam, J. Simonsen, A.S. Benight1 — Oregon State University and Portland State University1

Lunch and Keynote Speaker
Wade Adams, Director, Smalley Institute, Rice University
Become a Scientist, Save the World

Red Track
Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics
Session Chair: Grant Norton, Washington State University, Ruth Ann Mullen

• Silicon Nanowire Biosensor, J–S Yeo, Z. Li, R. Carter, Q. Wei, L. King, K. Peters, P. Kornilovich — Hewlett–Packard Co.
• Fabrication of Photonic Crystal Waveguides by Nanoimprint Lithography, J. Ellenson, D. Lazaroff, T. Yamashita, P. Kornilovich — Hewlett–Packard Co.
• Gas Sensing with Composite Nanoparticle–Nanowire Sensors, C. Berven, V. Dobrokhotov, R. Abdelrahaman, S. Chava, D. McIlroy — University of Idaho
• Nano–Structured Antireflection Surfaces, A. Piehl, J. Yeo, P. Kornilovich, B. Bicknell, D. Gardner, D. Lazaroff — Hewlett–Packard Co.

Green Track
Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety
Session Chair: Robert Tanguay, Oregon State University

• U.S. EPA — Nanotechnology Research: Environmental Benefits & Risks, N. Savage, US Environmental Protection Agency
• Experimental and Computational Approaches for Unraveling Dose–Dependent Transitions in Nanoparticle Biocompatibility, B. Thrall – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• An Integrative, Comparative Database System to Conslidate, Integrate and Analyze Data on Nanoparticle–Biological Interactions, S. Harper, R. Tanguay — Oregon State University
• In vitro Toxicity Evaluation of Engineered Nanomaterials, S. Hussain — US Air Force Research Laboratory

• Hybrid Nanostructures for Solar Energy Capture, M.G. Norton, – Washington State University
• Production of Solar–Grade Silicon in a Fluidized Bed Reactor: Beads and Fine Powder, S. Nova — REC Silicon
• Industrial Silicon Wafer Solar Cells, H. Neuhaus – Solarworld

Green Track
Green Nanotechnology
Session Chair: Jim Hutchison and Bettye Maddux, University of Oregon & ONAMI

• Toward Greener Nanotechnology: Lessons from Functionalized Nanoparticle Synthesis, J. Hutchison — University of Oregon
• Progress Towards Integrated Microchemical Nanofactories: Devices for Efficient Production of Nanomaterials, S.–H. Liu, C.–H. Chang, T. Tseng, R.T. Miller, B.K. Paul, M. Koesdjojo, Y. Tennico, J.T. Rundel, V.T. Remcho — Oregon State University
• 5’ Green Nano Company Highlight:  Jim Harris, CEO of Crystal Clear Technologies
•  Improving the Quality of Life Through Green Nanotechnology, B. Sabacky—Altair Nanotechnologies

Conference Banquet & Keynote Address Conference Keynote Address:
Challenges Facing the Nanotechnology Community)
Dr. E. Clayton Teague, Director, U.S. National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

Red Track
Microscale Chemical and Energy Processes
Session Chair: Landis Kannberg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OSU/PNNL/ONAMI Microproducts Breakthrough Institute

• Advanced Energy Recovery & Conversion Systems Deploying Micro Technology, T. Hendricks — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Biofunctionalization of Nanopatterned Silica from the Diatom Cyclotella sp, Debra Gale,  G. L. Rorrer – Oregon State University
• Nanosprings for Hydrogen Storage and Conversion,David N. McIlroy, Lidong Wang and M. Grant Norton – University of Idaho, Washington State University
• Immobilized Enzyme Microreactor, Karl Schilke and Christine Kelly –Oregon State University
• Conventional Control of a Microreactor for Optimal Energy Generation, K. Al–Fadhel and S. Al–Qassar – Kuwait University

Green Track
Nanobio Technologies, Diagnostics and Medical Devices
Session Chair: Cheryl Moody–Bartel, Invitrogen Corporation

• Nanomaterials and Stem Cells, M. O’Grady — Invitrogen Corp.
• Quantum Dot Conjugates as Promising Tools for Fluorescent based Tumor
  Resectioning,  C. Block — Signalomics GmbH
• Automated 3D Cell Analysis for Early Detection of Lung Cancer, E. Seibel1, M. Meyer, M. Fauver, J.R. Rahn, T. Neumann, F. Patten, A. Nelson — University of Washington1 and Visiongate Inc.
• Potentials of Iron Oxide Nanoparticle MR Imaging in Brain Malignancies, Csanad Varallyay — Oregon Health and Science University

Red Track
Nanotechnology for Energy Generation and Efficiency in the Forest Products Industry
Session Chair: Pete Lancaster, Weyerhaeuser

• Nanotechnology Opportunities for Reducing Energy Consumption in the Forest Products Industry, C. Risbrudt, USDA Federal Forest Products Laboratory
• Effect of Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC)Treatment  on the Properties of its Polymer Composites , L. Chang, E. Morelius, J. Holbery1, J. Zhang and M. Wolcott – Washington State University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory1
• Engineered Silcate Nano Fibers and Nano Calcium Carbonate, V. Mathur — GR International

Green Track
Nanomedicine and Cancer Therapeutics
Session Chair: Richard Traystman, Oregon Health & Science University

• Molecular Imaging in Medicine (in vivo systems) with Targeted Micro Bubbles, J. Lindner — Oregon Health and Science University
• Quantum Dots for Tracking Discrete Proteins Inside Live Cells, T. Vu — Oregon Health and Science University
• Nanoparticle Enhanced Optical Coherence Tomography, R. Wang — Oregon Health and Science University

Lunch and Keynote Speaker
The Honorable David Wu, Congressman, Oregon 1st District, and Chair, House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation

Plenary Panel
Sales and Market Development for Technology Entrepreneurs

Organizer: Kathy Miller, Hewlett–Packard Company
Moderator: Barbara Goode, Editor–in Chief, Small Times

Panelists:

• Jim Hurd, Nanoscience Exchange
• Paul Kedrosky, UC San Diego Von Liebig Center
• Rick LeFaivre, OVP Venture Partners
• Joe Tanous, Oregon State University/serial entrepreneur
• Brian Johnston, Kodak External Ventures
• David Soane, Alnis Biosciences/serial entrepreneur