International Study of the Long-term Impacts and Future Opportunities for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Kickoff Meeting
Arlington Hilton Hotel
December 10, 2009
Draft Brief Minutes
Attendees: Dawn Bonnell (U Penn), Jeff Brinker (Sandia), Hongda Chen (USDA), Shaochen Chen (NSF), Clark Cooper (NSF), Khershed Cooper (NRL), Minoo Dastoor (NASA), Larry Goldberg (NSF), Mark Hersam (Northwestern), Geoff Holdridge (NNCO), Evelyn Hu (Harvard), Chris Kelley (NIH), Kevin Lyons (NIST), Pinaki Mazumder (NSF), Chad Mirkin (Northwestern), André Nel (UCLA), Michael Postek (NIST), Barbara Ransom (NSF), Mike Roco (NSF), Celeste Rohlfing (NSF), Roger van Zee (NIST), Jeff Welser (SRC), Mike DeHaemer (WTEC), Grant Lewison (Evaluametrics), R. D. Shelton (WTEC), Ben Benokraitis (WTEC)
1. The agenda is attached.
2. The focus of the study should be on progress achieved in nanotechnology within the last ten years and the vision for ten years into the future. The “highways” of the field (not the byways) should be emphasized in the study. The target audience should be the general nanotechnology community rather than a particular interest group or government agency.
3. The study should include a number of scientific progress and opportunity (SPO) workshops around the world. The workshops should be held in two to three locations in Europe and a similar number of locations in Asia. A North American workshop should be held in Chicago, Illinois. The final workshop should be held in Arlington, Virginia.
4. Format of SPO Workshop in Chicago: 60-70 participants, 1.5 to 2 days; industry should be well represented; breakout sessions for chapters outlined in Item 5 below.
5. The following outline of the final report was drafted along with corresponding writing responsibilities.
I. Introduction: Fundamental enabling S&T: size-dependent properties that emerge at the nanoscale (Hersam, Hu)
· electronic
· optical
· thermal
· chemical
· mechanical
· biological
II. Enabling tools (Bonnell, Mirkin)
III. EHS (Nel, Mirkin)
IV. Infrastructure: Education (Hersam, Hu)
V. Synthesis/processing/manufacturing issues (Brinker, Hersam)
VI. Areas of relevance and impact
· environment and sustainability, including food security and water (Nel, Mirkin)
· biological, medical, including food and nutrition (Bonnell, Nel, Mirkin)
· energy, including biofuels, catalysis (Brinker, Welser, Hu)
· electronics/magnetics (Welser, Hu)
· photonics/plasmonics (Hu, Welser)
· catalysis for other than energy conversion (Hu)
· high-performance materials (primarily mechanical properties, e.g., infrastructure, transportation and aerospace, lightweight materials, stronger materials, coatings, etc., but also catch-all) (Hu, additional industry panelist, e.g., GE?)
Within each section, discuss the fundamental advances in the last ten years, multiscale and integration issues, and future challenges.
6. The following tentative schedule was proposed:
Chicago SPO Workshop: March 3-4 (Fallback: March 11-12)
Europe Trip: May 2-8 (Fallback: May 23-29)
Asia Trip: July 18-24 (Fallback: July 25-31)
NSF Workshop: Sept. 1-2 (Fallback: Sept. 9-10)
7. A conference call is scheduled for Friday, December 18, 2009 at 1 pm (EST).
Topics to be discussed at the conference call include:
· identifying Chicago SPO Workshop participants
o WTEC to ask panelists and lead sponsor for recommendations according to topics listed in Item 5
o WTEC to compile list of leaders of NNI-funded centers
· generating questions for SPO participants and issues to be discussed
o Mike Roco to draft initial list of questions
· preparing outline for SPO Workshop presentations (see p. 2 of SOW for starting point)