[BNC-all] Recap of the BNC Research Review, April 14th, 2008, ON BEHALF OF TIM SANDS

[Deborah S. Starewich]

Dear Birck Nanotechnology Center member:

If you were not able to attend the BNC Annual Research Review on April 14th,
the presentations were recorded and will appear on the nanoHUB.  In the
meantime, I invite you to peruse a written (html) version of a portion of
the overview presentation at:
http://www.purdue.edu/dp/Nanotechnology/nanoatpurdue.php

This draft report entitled "The Impact of the Investment in Nano at Purdue
University: Peer-reviewed Publications as a Metric" represents our attempt
to quantify (albeit in one dimension) the impact of the investment in the
people, the community and the facilities in nanoscience, nanoengineering and
nanotechnology at Purdue.

Let me also take this opportunity to recognize Yan Zhao, Waleska
Perez-Segarra, and Qicun Shi and Alexander Wei as the first recipients of
the Birck Nanotechnology Center Research Citation Award for their paper,
"Dithiocarbamate Assembly on Gold," which  appeared in the JOURNAL OF THE
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 127 (2005):  7328-29.
 
This citation award is presented to the authors of the journal publication
with the most citations in the Web of Science database for the two full
calendar years following the year of publication.   Publications with the
lead author indicating the Birck Nanotechnology Center as an affiliation are
eligible.  A plaque will be mounted in the BNC.

Speaking of plaques, you will also see two new plaques on the wall in the
atrium very soon, recognizing the founding co-directors, Dick Schwartz and
Jim Cooper for ³Exceptional Guidance and Leadership in the Formation of the
Birck Nanotechnology Center.²

Lastly, the poster, "Rapid electrokinetic patterning of colloidal particles
with optical landscapes," by Stuart Williams, Aloke Kumar, and Steve Wereley
received the highest number of votes during the poster session and, thus, an
award of $300 (plus a gross-up to cover taxes) will be split equally among
the authors of this winning poster.


Regards-

Tim


-- 
Timothy D. Sands
Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk 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

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