Nanomosis

Autumn InterAction Meeting Program

I summarise below the list of sessions with over 100 top speakers and discussion leaders for the program listing for the upcoming Autumn InterAction Meetings taking place in Philadelphia and Basel. Please add a traceback or link for other like-minded folk to find!

I also provide an electronic brochure for download here for the InnovationWell Autumn Program on Knowledge-based Innovation in Life Science Product Development:
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/theferryman/files/InnovationWell-ProgramAutumn05.PDF

And the equivalent eCheminfo brochure on Drug Discovery:
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/theferryman/files/eCheminfo-ProgramAutumn05.pdf

Note: The poster sessions will be run as electronic poster sessions using tabletop spaces, a wireless network and Internet facilities at the meetings, in addition to virtual access through the website, i.e., the posters will be electronic but the access can be face-to-face or virtual. You can participate in person and virtually in the poster sessions.  We can supply nourishment and refreshments locally; remote participants may have to order out! [We also expect, subject to on-site testing, to have live conference call capabilities for remote participating members to join local discussions.]  Anyone interested in presenting such an "electronic poster" should directly contact us via email at innovationwell at douglasconnect.com

Look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia or Basel!

Barry Hardy
Community of Practice Manager
Douglas Connect
http://douglasconnect.com/
+41 61 851 0170 (office)

InnovationWell & eCheminfo InterAction Meetings
Philadelphia, US, 11-12 October 2005 and Basel, Switzerland, 9-10 November
List of Sessions with Speakers & Schedule (InterAction Autumn Meetings)
http://innovationwell.net/ and http://echeminfo.com/

Registration to attend the meetings or to access virtually is available through the websites or through contacting Nicki Douglas [nicki.douglas at douglasconnect.com]

InnovationWell eCheminfo meeting workshop conference management executive drug safety KM Life Sciences Pharma Drug Discovery Drug Development Healthcare Innovation Informatics cheminformatics Knowledge Management events

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InterNanotech 2005: International Conference in Experimental & Computational Nanoscience

Conference Topics: Nanofluidics, nanobiology, nanofabrication, nanoparticles, computational nanoscience, nanomaterials, nanotubes, nanodevices, nanoelectronics, molecular manufacturing, activated carbon and zeolite design, self-assembly, health, safety, environmental and medical applications.

This community project is an international, interdisciplinary community for scientists working in research areas of relevance to nanoscience and nanotechnology.

The activities of the community support the rapid exchange of new research results and discussion in experimental and computational nanoscience. Members can attend regular Virtual Seminar sessions to keep up with research news and results from leading experts in the field.

Oversight, advice and guidance of the scientific program is provided by a Scientific Advisory Board, chaired by Prof. Nick Quirke of Imperial College London.

Web- and phone- based Conference sessions will be held monthly in Spring and Autumn 2005.

Call for Seminars/Papers: Please submit a short summary proposal for a proposed session you would be interested in chairing (ca. 500 words) or for a talk you would wish to present (ca. 300 words) to nanotech [at] douglasconnect.com by 31 October 2004.

All papers will be considered for publication in Molecular Simulation and the forthcoming Journal of Experimental Nanoscience (first issue, January 2006).

Please complete the Sign-Up on the Internanotech Web site at http://nanotech.colayer.net/ to stay informed.

Barry Hardy
Douglas Connect
www.douglasconnect.com

Theoretical Nanoscale Design of Self-Cleaning Surfaces

David Henry, Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Physics at RMIT University, Victoria, Australia, will present the following seminar from the Pacific Rim Conference in Nanoscience (7-11 September 2004). The seminar will be available for viewing and discussion through the Nanotech Hub at http://nanotech.colayer.net/ both during the conference and after the conference.

Theoretical Nanoscale Design of Self-Cleaning Surfaces

In the last few years there has been a considerable amount of work on the development of contamination resistant coatings. One approach is based on the ‘lotus effect' which is observed in nature. Leaves of lotus plants are known to stay clean even in dirty environments and it is now clear that this cleanliness is caused by the extreme non-wetting character of the leaves, with water contact angles greater than 150º. This super-non-wetting character is a result of the leaf surface being covered by a layer of low surface energy wax that is extremely rough on a nano-scale. One of the difficulties involved in using this effect in a synthetic system is that the low surface energy, rough surfaces are easily damaged and can be contaminated by higher surface energy organic contaminants. The lotus plant solves this problem by continually exuding wax to the surface, but this may be difficult to reproduce in a synthetic system. An alternative approach is to produce a strongly hydrophilic surface for which hydrophobic contaminants have little or no affinity and where water would easily remove any contaminants coming in contact with the surface.

We are involved in the nano-scale design and modification of organic coating surfaces for contamination resistance using theoretical techniques. Simulations are performed to gain a better understanding of the nature of the interaction between carbonaceous contaminants and polymer surfaces. The figure illustrates a fully atomistic model of an interface between a polymer surface and graphite which approximates common carbonaceous contaminants. Using classical potentials we calculate the adhesion energy as a function of interfacial separation (shown) for such interfaces with varying polymer surface composition. With this knowledge we are then able to propose surface modifications that will lead to reduced adhesion of contaminants prior to costly experimental testing.

Barry Hardy
Douglas Connect
www.douglasconnect.com
Nanotech Hub: http://nanotech.colayer.net/
Nanomosis Blog: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/nanomosis/

Pacific Rim Conference in Nanoscience brought from Australia to your PC

The Nanotech Hub presents over the Internet the Program from the Pacific Rim Conference in Nanoscience, Broome, Australia to be held 7-12 September 2004. The conference is chaired by Professor Nick Quirke, Imperial College London, and includes contributions from leading researchers in the Pacific Region, in addition to invited top speakers from Europe and the USA.

All lectures including slides and audio from the conference will be available through the Web site located at http://nanotech.colayer.net/, starting during the conference week and continuing through September and October.

All virtual registrants may present a poster through the Web site for viewing and discussion.

This conference is multidisciplinary, includes the disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology and engineering, and contains a significant amount of leading chemistry research in nanoscience.

The program covers current key research areas in nanoscience including nanofluidics, nanobio interfaces, nanofabrication, water, energy and minerals, nanoparticles, and computational nanoscience. Lectures on hot topics and workshops will also accompany the invited speaker program.

The virtual conference provides an opportunity to those unable to attend the physical conference in Broome, Australia to access and listen to all talks from the conference and to post questions and discussion items.

Conference Speakers

N. Quirke, Imperial College London; T. Becker, Universitaet Ulm, Ulm, Germany; C. Amatore, Universite de Paris, France; M. Sastry, National Chemical Laboratory, India; M. Pettitt, University of Houston, USA; S. Chou, Princeton University, USA; M. Y. Simmons, University of NSW, Australia; T. Turney, CSIRO Nanotechnology Centre, Australia; D. Evans, Australian National University; B. Hobbs, Chief Scientist, WA, Australia; K. Y. Chan, University of Hong Kong, HK; G. Parkinson, Curtin University, Australia; M. Lu , University of Queensland, Australia; J. Gale, Curtin University, Australia; F. Caruso, University of Melbourne, Australia; K. Kaneko, Chiba University, Japan; P. Cummings, Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; A. Fuchs, Universite de Paris Sud, France; B. Todd, Swinburne, University of Technology, Melbourne; P. McCormick, University of Western Australia, Perth; F. Stellacci, MIT, USA; I. Snook, RMIT , Melbourne, Australia; N. Kanellopoulos, NOE Coordinator, NCSR Demokritos, Greece; B. Hobbs, APNF; A. Appleton, Accelrys; J. R. Henderson, Univ. of Leeds, UK; Y. Kaneko, Kyoto University, Japan; D.J. Henry, RMIT University, Australia

Conference abstracts and news and views will be made available on an ongoing basis through the Blog located at http://barryhardy.blogs.com/nanomosis/

Please visit http://nanotech.colayer.net/ for further program information and to signup.

Barry Hardy, Ph.D.
Douglas Connect, Switzerland
www.douglasconnect.com
+41 61 851 0170 (office)
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Nanomosis Blog

This Nanomosis Blog has been created to provide news and views from the world of nanotechnology and nanoscience and is a companion to our newly launched nanotech community and conferencing site (http://nanotech.colayer.net/).

Barry Hardy
Douglas Connect
www.douglasconnect.com