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14 December 2004:
Nanoscale Soft Lithography Demonstrated
Recent work of Prof. J. M. DeSimone
and associates at the University of North Carolina –Chapel Hill was
featured on the cover of the International Edition of Angewandte Chemie
(2004-43/43). Photocurable, liquid perfluoropolyethers (PFPEs) have been
shown to be ideal materials for nanoscale pattern transfer and imprint
lithographic processes. For details click
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09 December 2004:
DeSimone
Receives Milkovich Award
Prof. J. M. DeSimone was recognized
on November 4, 2004 by the University of Akron with an award presented
annually commemorating Ralph Milkovich. The award recognizes an
international figure who has made significant contributions to polymer
science and engineering. DeSimone presented two lectures, one describing the
CO2 technology
platform and one describing use of fluoropolymers in replicating micro- and
nanostructures. For details click
here.
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22 November 2004:
USA
Today Reports on Green Chemistry
In November 22 on-line report, USA
Today cites DeSimone's work on TEFLON in a report on "Green
Chemistry". Click
here
for entire report. |
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10 November 2004:
Bothun
and EXPERT Noted in AAAS Publication
The EXPERT program at NCA&T State
University and its director, Dr. Geoff Bothun, are highlighted in a recent
article in Science's Next Wave, a publication of the American Association
for Advancement of Science. Click here
to access. (The article was originally published on
Science's Next Wave
MiSciNet: See also the homepage at
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/.
Thanks to AAAS for permission to reproduce this article on our website free
of charge.) |
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09 November 2004:
Jennifer
Young Moves to GCI
Dr. Jennifer Young, a 2000 PhD
graduate of Prof Joe DeSimone's group at UNC-CH, has left her position with
E. I. du Pont to join the Green Chemistry Institute of the American Chemical
Society in Washington, DC. About her new position she says, “I am very
excited about the opportunity to work in the Green Chemistry Institute with
pioneers in the field such as Paul Anastas. Though I am pleased with what I
was able to contribute at DuPont, my new position will allow me to devote
full time to my passion, helping to lead the revolution in Green Chemistry.
Much of today’s chemical technology is not sustainable. I hope to help
change that.”
Dr. Young’s PhD work on synthesis and
characterization of composite polymer particles in supercritical (SC) CO2
contributed to understanding of core/shell phenomena. She also co-authored
an important review article on polymerization in SCCO2 (Chemistry
Review. 1999, 99,
543-563.)
Jennifer is not new to
supporting social causes. While at Carolina, she and her fellow graduate
students of the class of 2000 received national attention in March 2000 when
they voted not to participate in an important technical meeting in South
Carolina in support of the NAACP's boycott of South Carolina's flying the
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08 November 2004:
UNC-CH
Ranked First in Entrepreneurship
Lots of universities offer degrees in business, but a new
initiative at UNC fosters entrepreneurial thinking and skills throughout the
liberal arts and sciences, as well as the business curriculum. That's why
The Princeton Review and Forbes.com rank Carolina the nation's top
university for fostering entrepreneurship.
Three factors were cited in the rankings: the launch of the
Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI) to promote entrepreneurship among
faculty, staff and students across the university; a new minor in
entrepreneurship in the College of Arts and Sciences; and Kenan-Flagler
Business School’s undergraduate business degree with a concentration in
entrepreneurship.
“Students are encouraged to participate in a variety of
extracurricular activities, including the Carolina Entrepreneurship Club and
Students in Free Enterprise, and to exploit school-sponsored programs like
the Carolina Launch Program, designed to guide students through the process
of starting up their own venture,” Forbes.com wrote in The 25 Most
Entrepreneurial Campuses. “The school also partners with a number of
prominent companies, including Ernst & Young, which hosts the Master Panel
of Entrepreneurs, during which award-winning entrepreneurs share their
stories with students."
The Carolina Launch Program is part of the CEI, an $11 million
program funded in part by a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
to infuse entrepreneurial approaches to education campuswide and help
faculty, staff and students at UNC launch ventures of all kinds –
commercial, social and artistic.
"This is an important honor acknowledging the university’s
commitment to fostering the entrepreneurial spirit that fuels the economic
engine of our country and drives social change," said John D. Kasarda,
director of the CEI, which involves programs across the university. "We are
fortunate to benefit from the curriculum and programs of the Center for
Entrepreneurial Studies and the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative as we
spur innovation and foster entrepreneurship at UNC."
Forbes.com partnered with The Princeton Review, which compiled data
from 357 top colleges and universities nationwide, asking a series of
questions about how they encourage and train undergraduate students to
become successful entrepreneurs.
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05 November 2004:Johnston
Receives Award
Dr. Johnston is a leader in utilizing industrial gases in chemical
processing and in drug delivery. He has made seminal contributions in
drug delivery in the formation of nanoparticles of proteins and poorly water
soluble drugs, in the use of compressed gases in inorganic nanoparticle
synthesis and assembly, and in polymer processing. His group’s
innovative discoveries have spawned research programs in numerous
laboratories throughout the world and led to commercial processes including
formation of pharmaceutical nanoparticles, synthesis of Si nanoparticles and
nanowires, CO2 dry cleaning, CO2 processing of low k
dielectric insulators in semiconductor manufacturing and supercritical water
oxidation (EcoWaste systems). The work has been sponsored by the National
Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Dow Chemical Company, the
Welch Foundation, the Separations Research Program, Texas Materials
Institute and Center for Nano- and Molecular Science at UT. He is the
Vice-President of the Int. Soc. for the Advancement of Supercritical Fluids
and directs UT’s efforts in a multi-university NSF Science and Technology
Center on Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes.
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Research Innovation that
has been Commercialized
Group
IV Semiconductor Nanocrystals
In a collaboration with Brian
Korgel, large quantities of robust, highly crystalline, organic-monolayer
passivated silicon and germanium nanocrystals and nanowires were synthesized
in compressed fluids above 400 oC. At the high temperatures
needed for crystallization, these fluids provide solvation of a steric
stabilizer to arrest particle growth. The smallest nanocrystals, 1.5
nm in diameter, exhibit discrete optical transitions and luminescence
quantum yields up to 23%, far above earlier values. This discovery was
a finalist in the Discover Magazine Awards for Technological Innovation in
2001. These Si nanoparticles and nanowires are being investigated in
optoelectronic devices in a start-up company, Innovalight, which has
licensed the technology.
Protein drug delivery and rapidly
dissolving poorly water soluble drugs
Johnston’s group introduced in 1993 a new CO2-based process,
precipitation with a compressed antisolvent, for the formation of
submicron and micron sized materials of a wide variety of inorganic and
organic materials including pharmaceuticals. This technology was
further developed in England by Peter York and licensed to Inhale
Therapeutics (now Nektar) for $250,000,000. Recently, Johnston’s
group, in collaboration with Bill Williams in UT-Pharmacy, has invented a
process, spray freezing into liquid (SFL), for producing high surface area
drug nanoparticles for both stable proteins and poorly water soluble drugs.
Dow has provided them $2,000,000 in research support, licensed the
technology and used it to start a new business, Bioaqueous, to achieve high
dissolution rates of poorly water soluble drugs.
Surfactants for Reactions, Separations, and
Materials Processing in CO2
CO2 with no surface tension is being exploited in
microelectronics processing to prevent image collapse of photoresists due to
capillary forces as features sizes shrink below 150 nm. Johnston has
designed surfactants to make CO2 based processes viable for
drying of photoresists without collapse, and cleaning and repairing porous
low k dielectric insulators. He is collaborating with Peter Green in
chemical engineering, Sematech, Motorola and Micell Technology.
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12 October 2004: DeSimone
Helps Lead Nanomedicine Initiative
Tuesday October 12, Dr. Tony
Waldrop, vice chancellor for research and economic development, inaugurates
the first in a series of interdisciplinary research workshops,
“Nanomedicine: Materials, Imaging, and Modeling,” as part of UNC’s
response to the National Institutes of Health Roadmap initiative.
Profs. Joseph DeSimone, professor of
chemistry; Richard Superfine and Jianping Lu, professors of physics and
astronomy; and Greg Forest, professor of mathematics will present this
workshop to principal investigators in all areas of science who are
interested in enhancing their involvement in interdisciplinary research.
The workshop, which is organized by
the UNC Roadmap Executive Committee, takes place from 4 pm to 7 pm in the
Bioinformatics Bldg. auditorium. Reception will follow.
The NIH proposed its Roadmap
initiative in 2003 as “an integrated vision to deepen our understanding
of biology, stimulate interdisciplinary research teams, and reshape clinical
research to accelerate medical discovery and improve people's health.”
Researchers at UNC have responded
enthusiastically to this initiative, winning five major interdisciplinary
grants in September. The Carolina Roadmap team will continue to facilitate
interdisciplinary collaboration in response to this initiative.
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11 October 2004:
Intel Announces EUV Technology
Intel has reached another
milestone on the path to developing a new chip manufacturing technology that
will keep its factories humming well into the future.
The chipmaker plans to reveal on
Monday that it has installed the first commercial extreme ultraviolet light
photolithography tool in a development facility on its Hillsboro, OR,
campus. (Click
here for details.)
Intel will use the EUV lithography
tool--which "draws" lines on silicon wafers that eventually become
metal circuits--to help refine a new manufacturing process that it expects
to adopt during 2009.
A lithography tool is an expensive
and complex piece of machinery, with some tools costing more than $15
million. The job it performs is similar to that of a slide projector. Using
a light source, a series of lenses and mirrors, and a device called a "photomask”
it imprints an image of the chip's circuitry on a silicon wafer. (Click
here for details)
Materials are then deposited and/or
carved out, according to the map left there. The lines are said to be drawn,
but they are actually developed through chemical reactions, in the same way
that light forms images on photo negatives.
Current lithography tools use lenses
and filters to create lines on the scale of a nanometer, or a billionth of a
meter. Lenses, however, are not always able to accurately project lines of
under a certain length and width. EUV improves on the formula by replacing
lenses with precision mirrors.
EUV lithography tools also rely on
ultraviolet light, which has a relatively short wavelength of 13.5
nanometers, to print smaller circuits. Right now, Intel's factories are
using lithography tools that use 193-nanometer light sources to draw
features as small as 50 nanometers.
"First and foremost, EUV extends
Intel's lithography road map, which is key to continuing scaling and
continuing Moore's Law," said Ken David, the director of components
research for Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group.
Moore's Law--which states that the
number of transistors on a given chip can be doubled every two years--has
been the guiding principle of progress in chip manufacturing since Intel
co-founder Gordon Moore first proposed it in 1965. (Click for
here details.)
Still, regular lithography will be
used as the standard in the industry until 2009. EUV lithography will come
into play when Intel starts to make chips with an average feature size of 32
nanometers. The average feature size on current cutting-edge chips is 90
nanometers.
The installation of the first EUV
lithography tool shows the technology is beginning to move out of the
laboratory. However, Intel believes it will still take several years of work
for EUV to work its way into the chip manufacturing mainstream.
The chipmaker has been working on the
technology for several years and is part of the EUV LLC, a research body
that supports the technology. (Click
here for details.)
It has been working with several
other companies that manufacture components for lithography tools. For
example, it has pledged to invest $20 million in Cymer, a company that makes
light sources, to help it accelerate development of light sources for EUV
lithography.
Although it got in on EUV early,
Intel probably won't be the only chipmaker to use the technology. Others,
including Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Infineon, Micron Technologies and
Motorola, have joined the EUV LLC.
Courtesy of John Spooner
CNETNews.com
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27 September 2004: Fueling Innovation: The Role of State S & T Initiatives
Dr. Walter Plosila, Vice President of
Technology Partnership Practice for Battelle Memorial Institute, spoke
at our Innovation Seminar Series on September 23, 2004. A copy of his slides
is available by clicking here.
Please do not reuse these slides without Dr. Plosila's permission. A
streaming video is available
here
(contact Ev Baucom if you do not
have the password to access the file)
Dr. Plosila discussed ways in which
state governments increasingly interact with their research universities --
both in building research stature and in connecting with industry for
economic growth and development. States have increasingly complemented
federal basic research support, emphasizing entrepreneurial development
through innovation. Technology commercialization, pre-seed and seed capital,
and industry-university partnerships are examples of how States encourage
this. Scientists and engineers in research institutions can be important
players in these entrepreneurial efforts and examples of
State partnerships will be examined.
Dr. Plosila is recognized nationally
for his innovative approaches to issues such as business-higher education
partnerships, technology-driven cluster development, and public
entrepreneurship strategies. He has been responsible for such nationally
recognized model programs as the Ben Franklin Partnerships (Pennsylvania)
and industry-led high technology regional trade associations (Maryland). In
recent years he has worked with a number of universities, regional business
organizations as well as states, in the development and design of
technology, biosciences, and information tech strategies as well as program
design and assessment, ranging from St. Louis and Indianapolis to Arizona,
Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Ohio.
Dr. Plosila has published numerous
papers and articles in the areas of economic and technology development,
entrepreneurship, and strategic management, most recently in the May, 2004
issue of Economic Development Quarterly, in an article entitled, "State
Science- and Technology-Based Economic Development Policy: History, Trends
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12 September 2004:
STC Plays Major Role in ISSF 2005
Profs. Ruben Carbonell and Keith
Johnston, together with Prof. Joan Brennecke of Notre Dame U, are organizers
of the 7th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluids (ISSF). The theme
of ISSF 2005 is "Roads to Commercialization". The Conference will be
held in Orlando, FL from May 1-4, 2005. Prof. Joe DeSimone will be a plenary
speaker. Further information and registration are available at the web site
http://www.issf2005.org.
The sessions will be organized around
various application areas:
Microelectronics
Reactions
Polymers
Fine Chemicals
Pharmaceuticals
Biotechnology
Environmental
Separations (analytical and large-scale)
Nanotechnology and novel materials
Each topical area will include work
on fundamental science and engineering (such as thermodynamics, phase
behavior, transport properties, intrinsic kinetics, synthesis etc.), as well
as process and product development efforts that are important for that
application area. We want to use this meeting as a major contribution
to Knowledge Transfer and to provide an opportunity for CERSP faculty and
students to "show their stuff" at this highly popular international
meeting in the high pressure fluids area. Faculty and students are strongly
encouraged to present at this meeting. Click
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11 September 2004:
CERSP Institutions Rated Among Top
In its annual ranking,
America’s Best Colleges 2005, U. S. News has rated three
CERSP among its top educational values. Nationally UT-Austin, UNC-Chapel
Hill and NC State University rank 1, 2 and 4, respectively, among public
universities. The formula used to determine which schools offer the best
value relates a school's academic quality, as indicated by its U.S. News
ranking, to the net cost of attendance for a student who receives the
average level of financial aid. The higher the quality of the program and
the lower the cost, the better the deal. To view the ratings click here.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/bestvalues/bvnatudoc_brief.php |
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02 September 2004:
DeSimone to Receive ACS Award
The American Chemical Society has selected
Prof. Joseph M. DeSimone to receive its 2005 Creative Invention Award. The
award will be presented at the March 2005 ACS meeting to be held in San
Diego, CA. Congratulations, Joe! |
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19 August 2004:
Parry Norling Joins EAB
We are pleased to announce that Dr.
Parry M. Norling has joined the External Advisory Board of CERSP.
Parry presented a very well received talk at our Innovation Seminar on
February 21, 2004; and a book to which he contributed, Next Generation
Environmental Technologies, is available on our website. |
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09 August 2004: EDSTAR
to Evaluate A&T Postdoc Program
EDSTAR, Inc. has been selected to
evaluate the professional service of Geoffrey Bothun, the new
postdoctoral fellow appointed by CERSP at NC A&T. EDSTAR will be compensated
$16,000.00 in return for their evaluation services. Funds for the evaluation
originate mainly from a recently awarded NSF Discovery Corp Postdoctoral
Fellowship and will be supplemented by CERSP. |
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17 June 2004: Green
Chemistry Videos Available
A series of videos entitled
"Green
Chemistry: Meeting Global Challenges" is available on our website. The
page is password protected. Contact baucome@email.unc.edu for the password. Click
here to access.
Instructors may broadcast materials and copy discussion questions in whole
or in part for individual classroom use or for training of other
instructors. No other use--and no commercial activity of any kind--is
authorized. |
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10 June
2004: NC A&T Introduces EXPERT
Program
NC A&T introduces the undergraduate research and development program
EXPERT (EXperimental Program for Education in Research and Training), which
is designed to increase the number of underrepresented students pursuing
graduate education, convey the urgency of “green” processes and
enhance research capabilities and competitiveness. EXPERT is multi-year
program that combines CERSP research with personal and professional
development projects. The first EXPERT research awards will be provided to
incoming freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors for the 04-05 academic
year. Click here for more information about
EXPERT. |
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08 June 2004: EAB Member Honored
Dr. Lloyd Robeson, who has served on
our External Advisory Board since the inception of CERSP, has been honored
by his Alma Mater, the University of Maryland. Lloyd has also represented
Air Products and Chemicals in the Kenan Center for Utilization of Carbon
Dioxide in Manufacturing since its inception. For details click
here. |
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02 June 2004:
Rossky Named to American Academy of Arts and
Sciences
Prof. Peter Rossky, professor of chemistry
at UT-Austin, has been named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
one of the nation’s highest academic honors. The academy, founded in 1780,
is an international learned society composed of leading scientists,
scholars, artists, business people and public leaders. It has 4,000 American
fellows and 600 foreign honorary members.
Prof. Rossky holds the Marvin K.
Collie -Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry in the College of Natural Sciences. He also is Director of the
Institute for Theoretical Chemistry. He is known for his pioneering
application of theoretical and computational methods in understanding the
chemical and biomolecular structure and reaction dynamics of liquid
solutions. Click here for more information about
Prof. Rossky. |
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01 June 2004: RECORD NUMBER OF ENGINEERING
Ph.D.s AT NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY
In 2002, the last year for
which nationwide statistics are available, 86 African Americans earned
Ph.D.s in engineering. They made up only 1.7 percent of all engineering
doctorates awarded by American universities. Twenty-seven of these
engineering doctorates were in the fields of mechanical or electrical
engineering.
This year North Carolina A&T State
University, the historically black institution in Greensboro, awarded
15 doctorates in electrical and mechanical engineering. This is the largest
class of doctoral students in the university's history. |
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25 May 2004: Dr. Christine Grant Receives
Presidential Award for Excellence
Christine S. Grant was recipient of a
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics & Engineering
Mentoring. The awardees are honored for encouraging women, minorities, and
people with disabilities to participate in these subjects during their
education. The recipients will each receive a $10,000 grant to apply to
their mentoring programs. |
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21 May 2004: Four New EAB Members Appointed
We are pleased to announce
that four new members have been appointed to CERSP's External Advisory Board
effective immediately. They are Ernest
Bibby, Assistant Superintendent for School Improvement Planning and
Technology, Granville County Schools in Oxford, N. C.;
Dr. Diane Hymes, Director of
Technology at Lam Research; Dr. Kenneth
Carter, Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San
Jose, CA.; and Prof. Bala Subramaniam,
Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Environmentally
Beneficial Catalysis at the University of Kansas. For biographical
information click the names above. Mr. Bibby's specialty, use of technology
in teaching, is key to our efforts in education. Dr. Hymes and Dr. Carter
were added to reflect CERSP's greater emphasis on microelectronics. And
Prof. Subramaniam is leading an NSF Center closely related to our own.
As excited as we are to add these new
members we regret that we are losing four long-time EAB members, several of
whom have been with us since our Center was established. They are Prof.
Curtis Frank (Stanford U.); Dr. Denis Dibay (Leesville Road HS; Prof. Paula
Hammond (MIT); and Dr. Keith Hutchenson (E. I. DuPont). We thank these
retiring members for their service over the years and wish them the best.
They have contributed significantly to the success of our Center. |
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April 2004:
House
Passes Green Chemistry Legislation
By a 402-14 margin the US House
of Representatives passed legislation supporting "green
chemistry" R&D. Prospects
for passage in the Senate look very promising. For details click
here. |
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23
April 2004: UNC Science Quad Dedicated to
Murray
The quad to be created north of
the chemistry building in the $205 million science complex now under
construction at UNC-Chapel Hill will be named in honor of Prof. Royce
Murray. Chancellor James Moeser
made the announcement during a groundbreaking ceremony on April 21.
For details click here.
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22
April 2004: Samulski
Demonstrates Biaxial Alignment
In work that has the potential to
revolutionize liquid-crystal displays (LCDs),
Prof. Ed Samulski and coworkers have provided unequivocal evidence of
the
long-sought biaxial nematic liquid-crystal phase in boomerang-shaped
molecules. The use of biaxial nematics could result in LCDs with faster
refresh rates and dramatically lower power consumption. For details click
here.
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April 2004: Wafer
Cleaning Workshop
An on-line workshop entitled "Wafer
Cleaning and Surface Preparation Workshop" will be presented
by Process Outlook Forum in connection with Sematech at 9 AM on Thursday May
6. Click here
to register (free) and to participate.
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12 April
2004: Immersion
Lithography
Immersion lithography is gaining
a great deal of attention these days. In
fact, technology for 157nm may well
never develop as interest in IL grows. Our
Center has incorporated IL into its
program plans. To learn about
this important new technology,
click here for an on-line seminar presented by four industry leaders.
(You will need an media player. Download
free from www.real.com if
you don't have one.) Thanks to
Webcast Technology from the editors of Semiconductor
International for this on-line tutorial.
Click
here: Event Lobby
For a summary of the seminar,
click
here. |
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24 March
2004: Key
Aspects of Sustainability
An excellent new EPA website
highlights many of the key aspects of sustainability.
As defined by EPA "sustainability" is the ability to
achieve economic prosperity while protecting the natural systems of the
planet, and providing a higher quality of life for its people. Individuals,
communities and institutions are developing and implementing sustainability
practices with the help of dozens of EPA programs, partnerships and policy
tools. The new website provides links to many EPA programs and tools that
contribute to sustainability. Click
here to access. |
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23 March 04:
Dr. Charles Prather to Speak
Dr. Charles Prather, president of
Bottom Line Innovation Associates, will speak at our Innovation Seminar
Series on April 22. Click here
to access the BLIA
website It contains a lot of interesting and useful links related to the
innovation process.
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22 March
04: Green Chemistry
Legislation Introduced
On
March 17, 2004
Rep. Phil Gingrey of
Georgia
introduced HR 3970, the "Green
Chemistry Research and Development Act of 2004", to the Full House
Committee on Science. As
proposed, $84 million will be provided over three years supporting R&D
in green chemistry. The funds
are proposed to come from existing budgets of NSF, EPA, DoE and NIST.
During testimony supporting the
bill, work of our Center was cited as example of the type of green
technology being supported by NSF. Click
here to access archived
video of the hearing. Select
March 17 hearings. (A media
player is needed to view.) Reference
to CERSP begins 19 minutes into the testimony.
Also of special interest to our Center
and its studies are comments of Prof. E. J. Woodhouse found 51.5 and 70
minutes into the proceedings.
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08 March 04:
Live Streaming Discontinued
Live
streaming of our videoconferences has been temporarily discontinued due to
problems with the server. Streaming video will be available on Fridays
following the seminars and will remain on-line for four weeks. The link is
password protected. Please contact baucome@email.unc.edu
for the password. If you already have the password, please click here
to view video. You will need a media player. Click here
for a free download.
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01 March 04:
DeSimone Speaks at Microelectronics Forum
On
January 21 Joe DeSimone presented the paper "The Use of a Dry™
CO2-based Technologies for the Enhanced Fabrication of Microelectronic
Devices" at the FSI and Solid State Technology/PennWell Process Outlook
Forum, a web-based symposium. The talk provides a good overview of our
vision of a totally "dry" process for microelectronics using CO2.
Click here
and select the January 21 seminar to access this presentation.
As a service to the industry, FSI and Solid State
Technology/PennWell are providing an easy, convenient and free means for industry
professionals to hear the latest on a wide range of processing areas from
respected experts. As the roadmap becomes more challenging, a good approach is to
have on-going dialogue about industry trends and challenges. Many industry
professionals worldwide have found the information sharing and discussion of ideas
that occur in the Process Outlook Forum to be of great value.
The 2003 Process Outlook Forum events attracted users from
nearly 200 companies, including strong participation from across the
U.S., Europe and Asia. Approximately 75 percent of 2003 registrants were
employees of semiconductor manufacturers, material suppliers or equipment companies.
The Process Outlook Forum, which was launched in March
2003, is designed to provide value to engineers, researchers and others in the
semiconductor industry by addressing the full spectrum of issues
pertaining to IC process technology challenges. The convenient, open format of the
program allows registrants to access and download the material, including presentations
and an audio MP3 recording, at any time - even weeks after an event
takes place. Registration for the Process Outlook Forum is free and
open to anyone. Click here to register
then click
on the session you want to hear/view.
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21 February 2004:
Dr. Norling Addresses CERCP on Innovation
Dr. Parry Norling Fellow of the Chemical Heritage Foundation and past Fellow
of the Rand Corporation, and retired Executive of E. I. du Pont, addressed
CERSP as part of our Personal Development Program. The title of the talk was
"Innovation in Next Generation Environmental Technologies: Benefits and
Barriers". Dr. Norling presented several case histories of successful innovations.
He highlighted the many barriers to innovation that must be overcome and the
dedication and vision necessary for success. The talk was attended by about 50
members and was very well received.
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18 February 2004: Waters Receives Sloan Fellowship
Congratulations to Prof.
Marcey Waters on receiving an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
Sloan Research Fellowships are designed to identify those who show
the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new
knowledge. Sloan Research Fellows, once chosen, are free to pursue whatever
lines of inquiry are of the most compelling interest to them. Their Sloan
funds can be applied to a wide variety of uses for which other, more
restricted funds such as research project grants cannot usually be employed.
Former Fellows report that this flexibility often gives the fellowships a
value well beyond their dollar amounts.
Aside from the monetary aspect of
the fellowships, less tangible benefits have been cited by former Fellows.
The early recognition of distinguished performance which the fellowships
confer, after years of arduous preparation, was said to be immensely
encouraging and a stimulus to personal and career development. Twenty-six
Sloan Fellows have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers, and hundreds
have received other honors.
Prof. Waters’ CERSP projects
include NMR
investigation of peptide structures
in CO2 and planned collaboration with Ruben Carbonell on fixing
enzymes on inert substrates for biocatalysis in CO2.
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| 05 February 2004: NC State
and UNC-CH Open Nanotechnology Center
A
new research facility designed for the fabrication of very small things may
have a big impact on the Triangle’s high-tech science and business scene.
More
than 150 leaders from
North Carolina
State
University
, the
University
of
North Carolina
at
Chapel Hill
, the
University
of
North Carolina
system, industry and government gathered to celebrate the opening of the
Triangle National Lithography Center (TNLC) on Tuesday,
Jan. 20, at the
Engineering
Graduate
Research
Center
on NC State’s Centennial Campus.
The
new state-of-the-art center will allow faculty and students at UNC-Chapel
Hill and NC State, along with industry partners, to take a huge step forward
in the cutting-edge field of nanofabrication – the design and manufacture
of computer chips and other devices so small they’re measured in
nanometers – one-billionth of a meter.
Attendees
toured the new facility and view its high-tech gem--a multimillion dollar,
193-nanometer lithography stepper. This stepper was committed, in part, as
matching funds provided by the University in support of the NSF
Science and
Technology
Center
for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes. Computer
chips, molecular electronics devices, and opto-electronics devices are just
a few of the items that can be produced with the stepper, researchers say.
Other nanoscale technology that can be produced by the tool includes
“lab-on-a-chip” devices that can, for example, screen biologically
active reagents like anthrax.
It
is believed that no other institute of higher education has such a
state-of-the-art tool for nanofabrication.
NC
State Chancellor Marye Anne Fox; UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser;
Dr. Russ Lea, representing the UNC system; Dr. Robert McMahan, science
advisor to Gov.
Mike Easley and executive director of the North Carolina Board of Science
& Technology; and Dr. Joe DeSimone, Kenan Professor of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State, spoke briefly at
the ceremony.
Click here
for details of the TNLC.
Click here
for video of the dedication. (streaming file requires Real
Player)
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| 04 February 2004: Skunky
Beer and Microchips
Q. What do skunky beer and
microchips have in common?
A. Prof. Malcolm Forbes.
As part of CERSP thrust area on
Microelectronics, Prof. Forbes will study darkening of polymers exposed to
193nm ultraviolet radiation. He is also using this equipment in a
collaborative study with Belgian chemists on how beer degrades on exposure
to light. The study is the subject of a documentary to air on Belgian public
TV. To read the full story click here.
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| 03 February 2004: High
Pressure Safety Video (streaming file requires Real
Player)
The DeSimone group has produced a video on safe
assembly and operation of high pressure cells using
carbon dioxide. Click here
to view the video.
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| 02 February 2004: Science
Article by Johnston Group
An
article entitled "Making Nanoscale Materials with Supercritical
Fluids" by Keith
Johnston and Parag Shah was published in the January 23 issue of Science
303, 482-483 (2004). The authors describe success in their lab in using
templates to replicate nanoscale structures using supercritical fluids.
Click here
to access the online version . |
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| 30 January 2004: Designing
for Innovation
In his
PhD dissertation at the North Carolina State University School of Design,
Umut Toker has shown that the level of innovation in a research center is
heavily influenced by physical factors such as sight lines. The easier it is
for people to see each other as they move around the building, the more
chance encounters they will have. The more often they encounter one another,
the more often they will engage in impromptu technical
discussions. And the more often they communicate, the faster they will come
up with new ideas. For details click here.
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| 23 January 2004: 2004
CERSP Orientation Meeting Held
An
overview of CERSP including planned directions for Phase II of the Center,
2004-2009, was conducted by Prof. J. M. DeSimone on January 8, 2004. For
details click here.
Summary of plans for individual thrust areas will be held at 3:00PM in our
usual video conference rooms as follows: Jan 15-Nanostructures, Jan
29-Macromolecules, and Feb 12-Microelectronics. CERSP students, faculty and
potential collaborators are urged to attend. |
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