Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference 09

Conference Hosts:

ONAMI Logo
Washington Technology Center Logo

Presenting Sponsors:

Hewlett-Packard

PNNL

Program Sponsor:

FEI

Conference Reception Sponsor:

Stoel Rives

Opening Reception Sponsor:

Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

Break Sponsor:

Life Technologies

Breakfast Sponsor:

Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt

Media Partner:

Nanotechnology Now

Media Sponsor:

InterNano

Exhibitor:

Eclipse

National Nanomanufacturing Network

MNBC 2009 Keynote Speakers:

Dr. James B. Roberto
Dr. James B. Roberto
Director, Strategic Capabilities
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Dr. B. Ray Stults
Dr. B. Ray Stults
Associate Laboratory Director Energy Sciences, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

 

Dr. Donald Tomalia
Dr. Donald Tomalia
Director of the National Dendrimer Center, Central Michigan University

Dr. Jud W. Virden, Jr.
Dr. Jud W. Virden, Jr.
Energy Sector Manager
Energy and Environment Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Rosa Yang
Rosa Yang
Vice President, Innovation
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

 

MNBC 2009 Tentative Program:

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
8:00 am – 7:00 pm Registration and Check-In
8:00 am – 5:00 pm Solar Energy Symposium
Organizer: Joe Janda, Portland State University and Oregon Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Center – AM Break, Lunch, PM Break included

Agenda & Faculty/Presenters:

  • Session 1: Solar Now - Why the industry is taking off
  • Session 2: Overview of Solar Materials
  • Session 3: The Future of Solar in thin films/nano/micro materials
  • Session 4: The Importance of Investing in New Materials Now

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Business & Industry Expo Setup
Poster Session Setup
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Short Courses & Workshops - Parallel Sessions
PM Break included
"Nano 101" Nanotechnology 101: What Technology, Business, and Government Professionals Should Know
Organizer: Skip Rung, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI)

Agenda & Faculty:
Paul Burrows, Reata Research
Clinton Ballinger, Evident Technologies (invited)
James Roberto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (invited)
Skip Rung, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute

Commercialization Nanotechnology Commercialization: Intellectual Property and Patent Reform
Organizer: George Renzoni, Christensen, O’Connor, Johnson and Kindness, PLLC

Agenda & Faculty:
George Renzoni, PhD and L. Rhys Lawson, PhD;
Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness, PLLC

Microtechnology Based Energy and Chemical Systems Arrayed Microchannel Technology Industry Forum
Organizer: Brian Paul, Oregon State University

Agenda & Faculty:
TBA

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Opening Reception, Exhibits and Poster Preview

TUESDAY, September 22, 2009
7:00 am – 5:30 pm Registration and Check-In
7:00 am – 8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am – 10:00 am Opening Plenary Session, Keynote Address

Welcome and Introduction
Lee Cheatham (Washington Technology Center) and Skip Rung (ONAMI)

Keynote:
Dr. Ray Stults - Associate Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Our Energy Future – Nanoscale Solutions to the Challenge

Keynote:
Dr. James Roberto - Director of Strategic Capabilities, Oakridge National Laboratory
New Tools for Nanoscale Research: Recent Developments at Department of Energy National Laboratories

Keynote:
Dr. Rosa Yang - Vice President for Innovation, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) The Promise of Nanotechnology in Power Generation and Delivery

10:00 am – 10:30 am Break
Business & Industry Exposition Opens
Technical Poster Session Opens
10:30 am – Noon Parallel Sessions
Red Track
Advanced Nanomaterials for Energy Storage
Session Chair: Rad Roberts, University of Washington

• (title TBD re:) Processing, Characterization, and Applications of Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage
Guozheng Cao, University of Washington

• (title TBD re:) Nanostructure Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries
Jun Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• (title TBD re:) Advanced Carbon Materials for Next Generation Energy Storage
Aaron Feaver or TBD, EnerG2, Inc.

Green Track
Sensor Systems
Session Chair: David Champion, Hewlett-Packard Company

• (title TBD, re:) The future of Sensor Processing
TBA , U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (invited)

High Sensitivity Detection of Biomolecules Using Magnetic Nanobeads
Pallavi Dhagat, E. Chatterjee, V. Remcho, A. Jander, J. Akse, P. Chiang and J. Atwater; Oregon State University

High Performance MEMS Accelerometers for Structural Health Monitoring
Michael O'Halloran, CH2M Hill; Don Milligan, Peter Hartwell, and David Champion, Hewlett-Packard Company

Noon – 1:30 pm Light Luncheon and Keynote Speaker

Keynote: Dr. Donald Tomalia – Director, National Dendrimer Center, Central Michigan University
(tent.title) Periodic Patterns, Relationships and Categories of Well-DefinedNanoscale Building Blocks

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Parallel Sessions
Red Track
Microtechnology for Energy Applications
Session Chair: Ward TeGrotenhuis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

(title TBD, re:) Microtechnologies for Energy Conversion
Bob Wegeng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Enhancement of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer using Nanostructured Surfaces on Aluminum, Copper and Silicon
Terry J. Hendricks and Shankar Krishnan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory;
Chih-hung Chang and Brian Paul, Oregon State University

(title TBD re:) Mass Manufacturing of Stirling Engines
Jason Modrell, Infinia Corporation (invited)

Green Track
Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, Part I
Session Co-Chair: Tania Vu, Oregon Health and Science University

(title TBD re:) Single Molecule Spectroscopy
Wei Kong, Oregon State University

(title TBD re:)
New faculty member TBA, OHSU (invited)

(title TBD re:)
Matt Harris, FEI Company (invited)

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break
Business & Industry Exposition
Technical Poster Session
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Parallel Sessions
Red Track
Electron and Ion Beam Nanofabrication
Session Chair: Keith Ritala, University of Washington

Manipulating light on the nanoscale
Michael Hochberg, University of Washington (invited)

Geometry assisted PEC for electron beam direct write nanolithography
Leonidas E Ocola, Argonne National Laboratory

High current milling applications for sample preparation and MEMS using a plasma ion source based FIB system
Sean Kellogg, T. Miller, A. Graupera, K. Mani, P. Carleson and R. Young; FEI Company

Green Track
Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, Part II: Bioconjugation at the Nanoscale
Session Chair: John Carruthers, Portland State University

Overview of Bioconjugation at the Nanoscale
Yuehe Lin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Glycan arrays and glyconanoparticles for high-throughput screening and sensing
Mingdi Yan, Portland State University

Immobilization of acetylcholinesterase for structural health monitoring
Dan Du, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Biofunctionalization of Graphene for Biosensing and Imaging
Zhiwen Tang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Exhibits and Posters Reception hosted by Stoel Rives, LLP
Technical Poster Session
Business & Industry Exposition

Special presentation: Ken Abbott, Hewlett-Packard (title & details TBD)

WEDNESDAY, September 23, 2009
7:00 am – Noon Registration and Check-In
7:00 am – 8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am – 9:30 am Parallel Sessions
Red Track
Microfabrication and MEMS Devices
Session Chair: Mike Hjelmstad, Washington Technology Center

(title TBD, re:) Current State of the Art and Future Directions in MEMS Fabrication
Mike Hjelmstad, Washington Technology Center

Microfluidic Devices Utilizing Biaxial Field-flow Fractionation for Nanoparticle Sorting and Separation
Joseph Peach, Vikram Jandhyala, and Lih Lin; University of Washington

MEMS process characterization by deconstruction and manipulation using a high-throughput focused ion beam (FIB)
Marc Castagna and Vinh Ngo; FEI Company

Green Track
Nanotechnology for Disease Detection and Drug Delivery
Session Chair: Cheryl Moody-Bartel, Life Technologies

Micro- and Nanotip Sensors for Rapid Screening of Tuberculosis
Woon-Hong Yeo, Fong-Li Chou, Kyong-Hoon Lee, and Jae-Hyun Chung; University of Washington

Mesoporous Nanocompartment Films For Drug Delivery and Sensing
Katsuhiko Ariga, Japan National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

• (Commercialization paper TBA)

9:30 am – 10:00 am Break
Business & Industry Exposition
Technical Poster Session
10:00 am – Noon Parallel Sessions
Red Track
Optics: manipulating light through micro and nanoengineering
Session Chair: Dirk Weiss, Washington Technology Center

Solution-processed multilayer dielectric optical elements
Andriy Zakutayev, Kai Jiang, Jason Stowers, Michael D. Anderson, Janet Tate, Douglas A. Keszler, *David C. Johnson, and David H. McIntyre; Oregon State University and *University of Oregon

Bending, trapping, filtering: the manipulation of light waves through nanostructures in nature and photovoltaic engineering
Dirk Weiss, Washington Technology Center

1-mm Diameter, Scanning Fiber Pico Projection Display
Brian Schowengerdt, University of Washington

BREGO: a Fabry-Perot based Optical MEMS color sensor
D.Champion, J.Wu, M.Valencia, S.Clark, *M.Palmieri; Hewlett-Packard, *ST Microelectronics

Green Track
High Peformance, Greeer Nanomaterials and Applications
Session Chair: Bettye Maddux, University of Oregon & ONAMI

(title TBD, re:) Green Nanomaterials Design and Processing- the State of the Art
Jim Hutchison, University of Oregon

Design of nano-structured misfit layer compounds and study on their properties with potential application as thermoelectric materials
Ngoc Nguyen, Andrew Taylor, Colby Heideman, and David C. Johnson

(title TBD, re:) LinkedON™ Antimicrobial Nanomaterials
John Miller, Dune Sciences, Inc.

(title TBD:re) solution processed inorganic films/Center for Green Materials Chemistry
D. A. Keszler, D.C. Johnson, A. Grenville et al, Oregon State University, University of Oregon, Inpria Corp

Noon – 1:30 pm Lunch and Keynote Speaker

Keynote: Dr. Jud Virden – Energy Sector Manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (title/topic re: energy TBA)

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Closing Plenary Panel:

The Changing Face of Technology Transfer and Early Stage Venture
Organizer: Pat Murphy, The University Funds

Panelists:

Jim Torina, CEO/Co-Founder, The University Funds

Early-stage Venture Capitalist #2 (TBD)

Robert Siegel, Partner xSeed Capital, Menlo Park, CA (Tentative)

Dr. Michael Hochberg, Asst. Proffesor Photonics, UW

Nano Scientists #2 (TBD)

Lewis Lee, Partner/Co-Founder, Lee & Hayes PLLC (IP/Patent specialists)

Chris Hurley, Partner/Founder, Beacon Law Advisors PLLC (IP/Commercialization Attorney)

Fiona Wills, Director of Technology Licensing, UW Tech Transfer (Tentative)

3:30 pm Poster Session and Business & Industry Expo Closes
  Concluding Hosted Reception with Panelists