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Multidisciplinary program Established in December 2002 wmich/nrcc

NANOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND COMPUTATION CENTER (NRCC) WSTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY KALAMAZOO, MI 49008. Multidisciplinary program Established in December 2002 www.wmich.edu/nrcc. NRCC MEMBERS. FACULTY MEMBERS Subra Murali (Director), Yirong Mo, Dongil Lee, Sherine Obare - Chemistry

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Multidisciplinary program Established in December 2002 wmich/nrcc

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  1. NANOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND COMPUTATION CENTER (NRCC)WSTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITYKALAMAZOO, MI 49008 Multidisciplinary program Established in December 2002 www.wmich.edu/nrcc

  2. NRCC MEMBERS FACULTY MEMBERS Subra Murali (Director), Yirong Mo, Dongil Lee, Sherine Obare - Chemistry Brian Tripp, Karim Essani – Biological Sciences Nora Berrah – Physics Tarun Gupta – Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Wlliam Liou – Mechanical and Aeuronautical Enginnering Massood Atashbar – Electrical and Computer Engineering STUDENTS AND POSTOCS 14 Graduate Students (M.S. and Ph.D.) 4 undergraduate students 3 postdoctoral associates

  3. FACILITIES • Laser micromachining instrument • Class 100 clean room • 80 kV TEM; SEM; AFM; XRD; Raman microscope. • Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) facility • 400 MHz & 500 MHz multinuclear NMR; EPR; FT-IR; laser light scattering instrument; absorption & fluorescence spectrometers; laser flash photolysis equip. • Molecular biology laboratories. • PC and SGI computer clusters for computational and modeling studies. • W. M. Keck Nanotechnology Laboratory – Laser Tweezer, Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, Langmuir Trough, laser light scattering, pendant drop equipment.

  4. AREAS OF RESEARCH • Molecular Self-Assembly – organic, biological, and composites for molecular recognition, sensors, catalysis. • Sensors – chemical, biological, and radiological agents; - biosensors; gases (O2, H2). • Novel nanomaterial synthesis and characterization. • Lab-on-chip and Lab-on-a-CD. • Novel nanomaterials derived from biological molecules – protein nanotubes, viral scaffolds, bacteriophages. • Quantum mechanical modeling of nanomaterials. • Electronic structures and properties of nanoclusters. • Fluid dynamics in micro- and nano-channels. • Molecular electronics. • Toxicity of nanoparticles.

  5. EXAMPLES OF CURRENT NANOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FUNDING AT WMU • W. M. KeckFoundation – “Fundamental Investigation of the Role of Line Tension in Nanotechnology” ($500,000/2 years). • Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences – “Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Nanosensors for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Agents” ($950,000/2 years). • Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences – “Metal Ion Recognitioin Through Organized Microstructures” ($350,000/3 years). • Michigan Life Science Corridor – “Nano- and Micro-array Centrifugal Field Bio-synthesis and Separation” ($750,000/3 years). • Xerox Foundation – “Nanoparticles for Imaging Applications” ($60,000/3 years).

  6. PENDING PROPOSALS • Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor (in collaboration with NanoVir) • Army Research Office (in collaboration with APG). • NASA ASTEP Program (in collaboration with Langley Research (Center). • Department of Energy (in collaboration with Altair Nanomaterials and the University of Nevada, Reno).

  7. COLLABORATORS • University of Nevada, Reno, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Northwestern, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,University of Toledo, University of Windsor. • Argonne National Lab, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, NASA Langley Research Center. • Pfizer, Altair Nanomaterials, NanoVir, Xerox, Canada.

  8. PROTEIN NANOTUBE

  9. SELF-ASSEMBLING NANOPARTICLES

  10. TEM IMAGE OF ZNS:Mn2+ QDOTS Size = 5.5±0.5 nm

  11. TEM IMAGE OF ZnS NANOTUBES

  12. FLRORESCENCE MICROSCOPY OF ZnS QDOTS

  13. AGGREGATION OF Au NANOPARTICLES 15 nm Au Resin treated +[Cu(en)2]2+ + Cu2+(aq.)

  14. MESOPOROUS SI WITH ENCAPSULATED Au NANOPARTICLE Si Shell (100 nm) Au (15 nm)

  15. Molecular Model Showing Interactions of PGE2 with the Sensor [Ru(bpy-5,5’-dimenthol-diester)3]2+ Cation

  16. CENTRIFUGAL FIELD SEPARATION (CD) Capillary tube Cross Sectional View 200 µm Aqueous Syringe Pump 300 µm Organic Centrifugal Force Micro Channel Spinning CD Detector AC Motor Waste

  17. GROUP

  18. RESEARCH OPPRTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS • Necessary to get students involved in nanotechnology research early. NSF estimates that nanotechnology will be a trillion dollar industry by 2015. We will need an additional 2 million nanotechnologists globally and 600,000 in the U.S. alone within this decade. • Encourage undergraduate students from WMU, community colleges, and high schools to participate in nanotechnology research. • Support from research grants, ACS SEED program, NIH BRIDGES program.

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