NSF-NSEC for Integrated Nanopatterning and Detection Technologies

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NSF-NSEC for Integrated Nanopatterning and
Detection Technologies (NSEC Grant Number EEC
0647560 ) Chad A. Mirkin (PI), Michael Bedzyk,
Vinayak Dravid, Horacio Espinosa, Franz Geiger,
Mark Hersam, Joseph Hupp, Sonbinh Nguyen, Monica
Olvera de la Cruz, George Schatz, Richard Van
Duyne, William Klein, Chang Liu, Milan Mrksich,
Steve Sligar, Teri Odom, Steve Wolinsky, Laurie
Zoloth, Mercouri Kanatzidis, Jiaxing Huang, C.
Shad Thaxton Northwestern University, University
of Chicago, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Education/Outreach
SRG 1 Nanopatterning
Research Experience for Undergraduates
Research Experience for Teachers

• Partnership with the Museum of Science and
  Industry, Chicago
• Resulting in 2,400 square ft permanent exhibit on
  nanotechnology
• Opening 2010
• Potential to reach over 2 million visitors per
  year
• DiscoverNano Website (www.discovernano.northwester
  n.edu)
• gt900,000 visitors a year
• Includes
• Introduction to nanotechnology
• Historical timeline
• Nano Art Gallery
• Curriculum projects
• Meet the Researchers
• Nanotechnology Town Hall Meetings
• Introduces nanotechnology to the public
• Addresses societal/ethical concerns
• 5 Town Halls to date, 500 attendees
• Nanoscience Pre-college Module
• Inquiry-based, links to real-world applications,
  extensively field-tested
• Includes student teacher manuals

• 164 REU Participants to date
• 50 of participants women and underrepresented
  minorities
• Hands-on research plus professional development
  activities
• Technical writing course
• Public Speaking workshop
• Tour of Argonne National Laboratory
• Final symposium and written paper
• 90 published papers

• Program includes hands-on research and curriculum
  development for their classrooms
• 73 pre-college teachers have participated to-date
• 9000 pre-college students impacted to-date

Dip-Pen Nanolithography Feedback
Controlled Lithography Field Induced
Oxidation 10 million Pen Array Intermolecular
spacing with atomic precision
Knowledge Transfer (to-date)

• 630 publications
• 183 provisional patents
• 1,382 domestic and international seminars
  colloquia
• 93 Frontier in Nanotechnology Seminars
• 6 International Institute for Nanotechnology
  Symposiums
• 16 start-up companies launched through Small
  Business Evaluation Entrepreneurs (SBEE)
  Program (Over 400M invested)
• 18 companies enlisted in Nanotechnology Corporate
  Partners (NCP) program
• 65 Industrial partnerships
• 42 International partnerships

Nanoscape The Journal of Undergraduate Research
in Nanoscience

• 80 Articles published to date
• Undergraduate authors from institutions across
  the country
• Volume VI I to be released Summer 2010
• On-line and print version
• Print version mailed to gt1,000 college and
  university departments and libraries

1.3 Million Probe 2-D 2-D Active
Probe Arrays Parallel Inking Wells
SRG 2 Signal Transduction Receptor Design
SRG 3Integrated Biodetection Chip
Flow
250 nm
Aperture
Lamp
Spectrometer
Flow cell
Detection Strategies Enabled by NanoMaterials
New Receptor Chemistries
Profiling HDAC Activity
Drug Binding to Membrane Proteins
Measuring Telomerase Activity
The authors wish to thank the National Science
Foundation for their support of this work.