[BNC-all] BNC Progress Report

[Timothy Sands]

Dear Birck Nanotechnology Center Member:

You probably know from walking through the building lately that the activity
level in the BNC is ramping up quickly.  I'd like to share with you some
tangible evidence of the growing momentum in the form of some notable
numbers:

421 researchers have been trained to use the BNC facilities

103 refereed papers (listed in the ISI Web of Science database) have been
published with the Birck Nanotechnology Center as an author affiliation
("Address = Birck Nano*"); 63 in FY2005-06 alone.

192 proposals have been submitted through the BNC business office, and 100
of those have resulted in awards thus far, a 52% success rate (will be
higher when the results from pending proposals are known).  Of the 192
proposals, 78 were submitted in the first 7 months of FY2006-07.

Research expenditures, including direct costs and facilities &
administration (indirect costs) from external sources (i.e., not including
cost sharing), total $31M to date.

If you would like more detail, please see the attached pdf file.

Congratulations to each of you for your part in this early success!

Regards-

Tim


-- 
Timothy D. Sands
Director, Birck Nanotechnology Center
Discovery Park, Purdue University
www.nano.purdue.edu
&
Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering
School of Materials Engineering & School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/Turner

Birck Nanotechnology Center
1205 West State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057
phone: (765) 496-6105
fax: (765) 496-8383
e-mail: tsands at purdue.edu


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