CNMS Development Team and Status

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CNMS Development Team and Status

• Doug Lowndes CNMS Director / ORNL
  Corporate Fellow Group Leader for Thin Film
• Nanostructured Materials Physics
  / UT professor (MSE, part-time)
• Michelle Buchanan CNMS Scientific Thrust
  Leader for Soft Materials / ORNL Director of
• Chemical Sciences Division
• Ward Plummer CNMS Scientific Thrust
  Leader for Complex Nanophase Materials Systems
• (Hard Materials) / Distinguished
  Scientist ORNL and UT (Physics)
• Peter Cummings CNMS Scientific Thrust
  Leader for Theory / Modeling / Sumulation
• (Nanomaterials Theory Institute) /
  Distinguished Scientist ORNL and UT
• (Chem Eng., Chemistry, Computational
  Science)
• Linda Horton CNMS Building,
  Infrastructure, and Outreach / ORNL BES
  Program
• Director for Metal and Ceramic
  Sciences
• John Cooke CNMS Work Proposal Manager /
  ORNL Director of Solid State Division
• Jim Roberto ORNL Associate Laboratory
  Director for Physical Sciences

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The Center for NanophaseMaterials Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been
selected to develop, together with the
university community, a highly collaborative
and multidisciplinary Nanoscale Science
Research Center
Douglas H. Lowndes E. Ward Plummer Oak Ridge
National Laboratory University of Tennessee
presentation at the BESAC Meeting Gaithersburg,
MD November 14, 2001
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Outline

• Challenges in Nanoscale Science
• The CNMS Concept Creating Scientific
  Synergies
• to Accelerate the Pace of Discovery
• Neutron science science-driven synthesis and
  nano-
• fabrication research theory / modeling /
  simulation (TMS)
• Major scientific thrusts, CNMS building, and
  projected impacts
• CNMS Outreach, Vision for Interactions, and
  Science Enabled
• Enabling collaborative, multidisciplinary
  science Staffing CNMS scholars
• Initial outreach (2000) and First Planning
  Workshop (Oct. 2001)
• Candidate Research Focus Areas (within
  Scientific Thrusts)
• Equipment Needs and Access to Other ORNL
  Assets
• Management Plan and Governance
• Advisory Committee Proposal Review
  Committees access to CNMS
• ORNL, State, and Other Commitments to the
  CNMS
• Complementarity Coordination with Other
  Nanoscience Activities
• Synthesis The Role of Materials in
  Discovery An Example of
  Coordination and Complementarity

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A Significant Characteristic of Nanoscale
Science

• THE GREATEST CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
  REQUIRE WORKING AT A SET OF INTERFACES
• Understanding Boundaries of academic
  disciplines
• Physics / chemistry / biology / computational
  science / engineering
• New Technology Requires Integrating
• Soft Hard Materials Sciences
• Different tools, different expertise
• Both needed for new Nanotechnology
• Nanometer Length Scale Midway between
• Atomic-scale (masters of understanding)
• Sub-micron scale (masters of
  miniaturization)
• Current Scientific Infrastructure Not Well
  Suited
• for Research or Education at the Nanoscale

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The BES Challenge for Nanoscale Science
Research Centers
Maximize resources and promote
multidisciplinary interactions, to enable
research of a scope and depth beyond
current national capabilities

• Clear Intent
• Focus research on largest, most fundamental
  challenges to understanding nanoscale
  materials and phenomena
• Assemble resources--people, facilities,
  collaborative expertise--and create synergies
  that will rapidly advance knowledge of
  nanoscale materials and phenomena
• Identify ways to integrate uniquely
  nanoscale phenomena and properties with the
  micro- and macro- scales
• Create an environment for multidisciplinary
  research education

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Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

• A highly collaborative, multidisciplinary
  research center
• Co-located with the Spallation Neutron
  Source (SNS)
• and the Joint Institute for Neutron
  Sciences (JINS)
• on ORNLs new campus

Nanofabrication Research Lab
SNS
CNMS
JINS
CNMS Offices and Labs
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Science Themes and VisionHow Will the CNMS
AccelerateDiscovery in Nanoscale Science?
By Integrating Nanoscale Science with Three
Synergistic Research Needs

• Neutron Science

• Synthesis Science

• Theory / Modeling / Simulation

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How Will the CNMS AccelerateDiscovery in
Nanoscale Science?

• Neutron Science SNS Upgraded HFIR
• Opportunity to assume world leadership using
  unique capabilities of neutron scattering
  to understand nanoscale materials and
  processes
• Challenging nanoscience focus helps grow the
  U.S.-based neutron science community to
  levels found elsewhere in the world

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How Will the CNMS AccelerateDiscovery in
Nanoscale Science?

• Synthesis Science Nanofabrication Research
  Laboratory
• Science-driven synthesis Key role of
  synthesis as enabler of new generations of
  advanced materials evolution of synthesis
  via TMS
• More efficient methods Search Discovery
  new synthesis pathways

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How Will the CNMS AccelerateDiscovery in
Nanoscale Science?

• Theory / Modeling / Simulation (TMS)
  Nanomaterials Theory Institute
• Stimulate U.S. leadership in using TMS to
  design new nanomaterials
• Investigate new pathways for materials
  synthesis
• Apply TMS and ORNLs CCS to understand
  nanoscale phenomena

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How Will the CNMS AccelerateDiscovery in
Nanoscale Science?

• By assembling the resources and creating
  the synergies needed to
• produce timely answers to the largest
  questions in nanoscale science

Special environments In situ
measurements Time-resolved measurements Extensive
synthesis capabilities Simulation-driven
design
More efficient search discovery Nonequilibrium
combinatorial synthesis Science-driven
synthesis More intelligent searching
CNMS will create and exploit the synergies
among theseand with the university
communityto accelerate the pace of discovery
and produce a nonlinear return on
investment
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Organization of Research in the CNMS

• Three major Scientific Thrusts
  Nanofabrication Research Lab
• Soft Materials -- Michelle Buchanan
• Including organic, interfacial, and hybrid
  nanophases
• Complex Nanophase Materials Systems -- Ward
  Plummer
• Including cross-cutting areas of interfaces
  and reduced dimensionality
• Nanomaterials Theory Institute -- Peter Cummings
• Nanofabrication Research Laboratory -- Michael
  Simpson
• 10 multidisciplinary Research Focus
  Areas, proposed by scientific community,
  recommended by Advisory Committee
• Anchored by ORNL staff long-term visitors
  (core research staff)
• Dominated numerically by graduate students,
  postdocs, short-term visitors

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Enabling Collaborative, Multidisciplinary
ResearchBuilding and Support Facilities

• 80,000 sf Four levels Nanofabrication
  Research Lab (NRL)
• Wet and dry materials synthesis and
  characterization labs
• Office space for staff and visitors
  Immediately opposite labs to maximize
  collaborative, multidisiplinary, and
  educational interactions
• Nanomaterials Theory Institute Labs to
  access terascale computing facilities /
  expertise of ORNL Center for Computational
  Sciences (CCS)
• NRL Clean and environmentally controlled
  rooms electron microscopes nanoscale
  patterning (e-beam writer / lithography)
  facilities for manipulation and integration
  of soft hard materials
• CNMS 1st floor (adjacent to NRL)
  High-resolution scanning probes

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Vision for Nanoscience Research Education

• A collaborative research center for design,
  synthesis, characterization and theory /
  modeling / simulation of nanoscale materials /
  phenomena / assemblies
• Provide scientists from throughout the U.S.
  with access to state-of-the-art facilities
  and expertise for
• Materials synthesis, nanofabrication, and
  integration
• Scanning-probe and e-beam imaging instruments
  from atomic scale upward
• k-space and direct time-resolved studies of
  materials synthesis self-assembly
• Terascale modeling and simulation
• Anchored by nationally
• recognized core research
• staff drawn from ORNL,
• universities, and industry
• CNMS Postdoc Fellowships
• Training ground for nations
• future scientists and faculty
• CNMS Scholarships Local expense support to
  ensure access by qualified grad student
  and postdoctoral visitors (brief
  peer-reviewed proposal)
• Expert technical assistance, training, and
  scientific collaboration
• Highly interactive and multidisciplinary
  environment
• for nanoscience research education

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Projected Impacts

• CNMS will provide access to the full cycle
  of
• capabilities needed to meet the BES
  Challenge

Resident collaborators, technical support
personnel, short- and long-term visiting
positions Infrastructure and environment
to support collaborative research
and multidisciplinary research education

• Increased and accelerated fundamental
  understanding
• Growth mechanisms, self-assembly, transfer
  coupling across interfaces,
• collective phenomena in low dimensionality,
  inorganic/organic/bio interfaces
• Many fields impacted (see IWGN Natl.
  Nanotech. Initiative summary)
• Structural materials, highly specific
  sensors, functional materials (nanoscale
• size, dimensionality), medicine (targeted
  drug delivery imaging), catalysis
• (efficiency, selectivity), energy generation /
  storage, nanomechanics (friction,
• actuators), vacuum nano-electronics (nanotube
  field emitters)

Permit tackling problems of a scope,
disciplinary depth, and complexity that is
beyond current national capabilities
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CNMS Projected Collaborative Impacts

• CNMS will be THE world leader in using
  neutron scattering to make broad classes of
  nanoscale phenomena accessible to
  fundamental study
• Leadership in science-driven synthesisvia
  synergy with TMSwill accelerate both
  discovery and understanding of advanced
  materials
• Nanomaterials Theory Institute
• A world leader for designing new functional
  materials and for investigating pathways
  for nanomaterials synthesis
• Stimulate and support the understanding of
  nanoscale phenomena
• Nanofabrication Research Laboratory
  (facilities and expertise)
• Understand and direct nanoscale self-assembly
• Functionally integrate use of soft and
  hard materials
• CNMS A leading center for
  multidisiciplinary NSET research and
  education in the United States, and the
  intellectual and operational focal point for
  the southeastern U. S.

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• How Will CNMS Enable
• Multidisciplinary Collaborations ?

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CNMS Staffing and Mode of Operation

• Flexible and multidisciplinary
• Core research staff includes 18 FTE ( 27
  actual) ORNL-derived researchers
• Forefront scientists, nationally known
  programs
• 10 Research Focus Areas that evolve and
  can be changed
• Highly collaborative (mainly universities
  industry, other NLs)
• Core res. staff includes 18 FTE ( 27
  actual) long-term visitors
• Young faculty sabbatical visitors
  releasetime purchases to enable
  collaboration
• Up to 36 postdocs from universities,
  national labs, industry
• Hundreds of graduate students and short-term
  visitors per year
• 1/2 to 3/4 of FTEs from other institutions
• Highly qualified technical support staff
• Major presence of visitors in staffing
• to enhance collaboration

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Encouraging Multidisciplinary Research
EducationCNMS Scholarships for Graduate
Students and Short-Term Visitors

• PURPOSES
• Overcome a barrier to collaboration
• Provide enhanced opportunities for grad
  students and visitors to obtain
  collaborative, multidisciplinary research
  experience using specialized national
  facilities
• Increase the pool of young scientists with
  multidisciplinary nanoscale research experience

• Scholarships cover full-time local living
  expenses (per diem) for 35 FTE graduate
  students and 35 FTE short-term research
  visitors
• Hundreds in practice (est. 300 - 750 / year,
  depending on duration of visit)
• Criterion Quality and suitability of the
  Science
• Proposal Selection Committee approval required

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Encouraging Multidisciplinary Research
EducationCNMS Support for Postdoctoral
Scholars

• CNMS Support for 18 FTE Postdoctoral
  Scholars
• Expect up to 36 people jointly supported
  with university research groups
• MODEL 6 postdocs hired fully by CNMS,
  24 hired jointly with collaborating groups
• CRITERIA FOR POSTDOCTORAL SUPPORT
• Highly motivated research collaborators with
  own research support
• Quality and suitability of the Science
• Advisory Committee recommendations for
  Research Focus Areas and budget allocations
• Rapidly establish new research direction
  (Advisory Committee recommendation)

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Governance of the Center for Nanophase Materials
Sciences
ORNL Associate Laboratory Director For Physical
Sciences James B. Roberto
Advisory Committee Center for Nanophase Materials
Sciences Recommends Research Focus Areas and
priorities
Input from the broad Nanoscale Science,
Engineering, and Technology Community
Proposal Selection Committee One per Scientific
Thrust Area Chaired by appropriate members of the
Advisory Committee Reviews and approves Visiting
Scientist Applications
Director Center for Nanophase Materials
Sciences Douglas H. Lowndes
SNS - HFIR Close ties will be maintained Reviews
will be coordinated to assure access to neutrons
Soft Materials Michelle V. Buchanan
Complex Nanophase Materials Systems E. Ward
Plummer
Theory, Modeling, And Simulation (Nanomaterials
Theory Institute) Peter T. Cummings
Nanofabrication Research Laboratory Michael L.
Simpson
Visitor and Guest Support TBD
Research Focus Area Anchored by core research
staff and long-term Visiting Scientists
Research Focus Area Anchored by core research
staff and long-term Visiting Scientists
Research Focus Area Anchored by core research
staff and long-term Visiting Scientists
Anchored by core research staff and long-term
Visiting Scientists
Experimental Equipment Support TBD
Research Focus Area Number of focus areas
recommended by the Advisory Committee
Research Focus Area Number of focus areas
recommended by the Advisory Committee
Research Focus Area Number of focus areas
recommended by the Advisory Committee
Key to Chart
colors Yellow CNMS Leadership Team Blue
External Advisory Groups and Committees
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Governance of the Center for Nanophase Materials
Sciences
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Advisory Committee

• Experts in 3 Scientific Thrusts (STs) and
  Nanofabrication Research
• Additional expertise in neutron scattering
  and other areas determined by the Chair
• Chair to be named in FY2002
• Responsibilities
• 1 Recommend Research Focus Areas and
  priorities
• Input Director, ST Leaders, research
  community (Workshops, reports)
• 2 Review Committee for ongoing research /
  educational activities
• 3 Can recommend discontinuing a Research
  Focus Area or Scientific Thrust (lack of
  progress lower priority than emerging
  science)

• Nine Advisory Committee Members
• 6 external, 3 internal
• Initially Appointed by ORNL Assoc. Lab
  Director (ALD), in consultation with CNMS
  Director, ST Leaders Advisory Committee
  Chair
• Steady state
• Nominated by collaborating community and
  Advisory Committee
• Approved by ALD in consultation with CNMS
  Director ST Leaders
• The Advisory Committee has teeth in order
  to
• provide the Center with flexibility to
  evolve

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Access by Visiting Scientists Similar to
CRC Visiting Scientist Selection Process

• Through Proposal Selection Committees
• One for each Scientific Thrust (three
  initially)
• Review and prioritize proposals for
  short-term access
• Each Chaired by a member of the Advisory
  Committee
• Members include Scientific Thrust Leader
  CNMS Director (ex officio)
• Chair selects other internal and external
  members from the nanoscience community
• Input to the Selection Committees Peer
  Review (e-mail)

• Single Application Process
• Internally coordinated with SNS HFIR
• Internally coordinated with other ORNL CRCs
  or User Facilities
• TIMELY ACCESS WITH ONLY ONE APPLICATION

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The First CNMSPlanning Workshop278
registered participantsfrom 67
institutionsPlenary SessionTom Russell (U.
Mass.)Z. L. Wang (Georgia Tech)Thomas Theiss
(IBM Watson)Center Overview Scientific
Thrust LeadersThree Rounds of Breakout
Discussion Sessions
Further Engaging the Scientific Community
http//www.ms.ornl.gov/nanoworkshop/nanointro.htm
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Institutions Represented at the FirstCNMS
Planning Workshop

• Universities (46)
• Alabama, Alabama-Birmingham, Arkansas, Baylor,
  Clark Atlanta, Clemson, Colorado State, Duke,
  East Carolina, Florida, Florida AM, Florida
  International, Florida State, Georgia State,
  Georgia Tech, Houston, Iowa State, Kentucky,
  Louisville, Maryland, Massachusetts-Amherst,
  Memphis, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri-Rolla,
  Mississippi State, New Orleans, North Carolina,
  North Carolina State, Northwestern, Oklahoma
  State, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Puerto Rico,
  Rice, South Carolina, Southern Illinois,
  Tennessee, Tennessee Tech, Tulane, UCLA, Utah,
  Vanderbilt, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Washington
  U. (St. Louis)
• National Research Laboratories and Centers (10)
• Ames National Lab, Argonne National Lab,
  Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence
  Livermore National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab,
  Sandia National Labs, Max-Planck-Institut of
  Microstructure Physics (Germany), NASA Marshall
  Space Flight Center, NASA Langley Research
  Center, National High Magnetic Field Lab
• Industry (including development of
  nanotechnology) (10)
• DRA, East Tenn. Development Council, Exeter
  Asset Mgt., IBM Watson Research Center, Motorola
  Inc., Plasma Processes Inc., Rowland Institute,
  Teledyne Brown Engineering, Toucan Capital Corp.,
  Western Environmental Corp.

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CNMS Planning Workshop

• PURPOSE
• Engage the national and regional scientific
  community in planning the Center and its
  research
• BREAKOUT DISCUSSION SESSIONS
• INPUT SOUGHT AND DESIRED OUTCOMES
• Identify candidate collaborative Research
  Focus Areas (RFAs) and equipment needs
• Most important challenges to scientific
  understanding
• Most signficant opportunities for new
  technology
• Identify university and ORNL champions for
  Research Focus Areas
• Potential lead scientists for collaborative
  research
• Build teams for research in the Centers
  scientific thrust areas
• Desired CNMS mode of operation and
  infrastructure / support needs
• Access to existing ORNL facilities /
  capabilities useful for nanoscience
• Outreach to and collaborations with other
  BES NSRCs and other federal, state, and
  university nanoscience research centers

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Results of First CNMS Planning
WorkshopCandidate Research Focus Areas
Soft Materials

• Synthetic Polymers and
• Bio-Inspired Materials
• Scientific Challenges
• v Creating 3D structures with tailored
  properties and/or function
• v Controlled supramolecular assembly of
  macromolecules

• Interfacing Nanostructures to Biological
  Systems From Synthesis to Signal Transduction
• Scientific Challenges
• v Controlled synthesis at size scale
  spacing relevant to bio systems
• v Patterned functionalization assembly of
  nanoscale materials
• v Communication across the nano-material /
  biomaterial interface

• Systems Dominated by Organic-
• Inorganic Interconnections
• Scientific Challenges
• v Nature of organic-inorganic interactions
• v Transmission measurement of responses
  across soft-hard interfaces
• v Control of interactions at multiple length
  scales to construct hybrid designed materials
• v Interrogation theoretical description of
  soft-hard interfaces

• Electronics on a Molecular Scale
• Scientific Challenges
• v Theory of molecular structure and the
  substrate-molecule interface
• Molecular conformation and band offsets
• v Charge transport manipulation
• v The input/output problem and mass
  production (in-principle solution?)

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Results of First CNMS Planning
WorkshopSynthetic Polymers and Bio-Inspired
Materials (Candidate Research Focus Area)

• Scientific Grand Challenges
• v 3D structures with tailored properties
  and/or function
• v Controlled supramolecular assembly of
  macromolecules
• Specific Challenges
• v Synthetic control of macromolecular
  architecture for stiffness (3D structures),
  specificity of inter-molecular interactions
• v Hybrid macromolecular systems (org / inorg
  bio-org / inorg, including nanotubes
  nanoparticles)
• v Control of interfacial phenomena Uniform
  (homog), heterog, patterned
• v Scaling of structures properties Nano-
  to macro-scale
• v Characterization of interfaces Structure,
  dynamics, microscopic and macroscopic
  properties
• v Modeling structure dynamics in
  condensed phases

• Technological Opportunities
• v Controlled drug/genome delivery, films
  with controlled properties, biomimetic
  function, self-healing structures, reversible
  sensors, fluid confinement (sorption and flow),
  separations, stimulus-controlled properties
• Champions
• T. Russell (U. Mass.), J.K. Blasie (Penn), J.
  Mays (Ala-Birm / Tenn.), M. Dadmun (Tenn)
• ORNL P. Britt, E. Greenbaum, G. Wignall, M.
  Ramsey, P. Cummings others
• Collaborators
• Up to 20 other key national leaders in
• polymers biomaterials to be invited
• Interactions with Other Centers
• NIST and Ga Tech Nano Center
• NSF/MRSECs in polymer biomaterials
• Mass., Penn., Princeton, UCSB, etc.

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Results of First CNMS Planning
WorkshopCandidate Research Focus Areas
Theory, Modeling, Simulation

• Virtual Synthesis
• and Nanomaterials Design
• Scientific Challenges
• v Chemistry - structure - properties
• v Thermodynamics vs kinetics Formation of
  metastable structures predicting kinetic
  pathways to unique structures
• v Theory and simulation across multiple length
  scales
• v Prediction of materials with exceptional
  characteristics
• v Narrowing the search Optimized selec-tion of
  candidate materials processes
• Champions (of 30 people, 13 institutions)
• M. Buongiorno Nardelli J. Bernholc (NCSU), S.
  Glotzer (Mich), Y. Kim (P.R.), S. Pantelides
  (Vanderbilt), C. Jayanthi, S. Liu, S. Wu
  (Louisville)
• ORNL M. Stocks 9 collaborators

• Theoretical Nano-Interface Science
• Scientific Challenges
• Theory and simulation across multiple
• length and time scales, to understand
• v Interactions at organic / organic (bio and
  non-bio), organic / inorganic, and inorganic /
  inorganic interfaces
• v Transport / transfer at and across interfaces
• v Influence of interfaces at larger length
  scales
• v Designed materials, leading to molecular
  electronics integration, and biomedical /
  chemical sensors
• Champions
• S. Glotzer (Mich), G. Smith (Utah), J. Bernholc
  (NCSU) 10 collaborators at eight institutions
• ORNL P. Cummings approximately 10
  collaborators

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Results of First CNMS Planning
WorkshopCandidate Research Focus Areas
Complex Hard Materials

• Carbon-Based Nanostructures
• Scientific Challenges
• v Fundamentals of growth at atomic level
  (catalysts, chirality, in situ diagnostics)
• v Large-scale production with designed
  properties (diameter, chirality, exotic
  conformations tori, Y)
• v Functionalization of nanotubes (pea pods,
  sidewalls, polymer wrapping, collodial
  suspensions)

• Nanostructured Magnetic Materials
• Scientific Challenges
• v Synthesis and controlled assembly of magnetic
  nanostructures
• v Dimensionally confined magnetism
• v Control / exploitation of spin / spin-currents
• v Entanglement and decoherence

• Nanoscale Interface Science
• (Nano- particles grains)
• Scientific Challenges
• v Understanding exploiting dominance of
  nanoparticle / grain properties by interfaces /
  grain boundaries
• v Deformation mechanisms
• Effects at the particle / grain interface?
• Role of dislocations diffusion?
• v Thermodynamics (including meaning)
• Dominated by surfaces / interfaces and gradients
  near these?
• Phase transitions Controlled by phenomena at
  the phase interfaces?

• Nanoscale Manipulation
• of Collective Behavior
• Scientific Challenges
• v Understanding and controlling spontaneous
  nanoscale phase separation in correlated
  materials
• v Nanoscale control of collective phenomena
  in field-effect structures
• v Understanding and probing effects of
  reduced dimensionality
• v Control of magnetic properties and
  conduction at interfaces

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Equipment Instrumentationfor Collaborative
Research

• 1 CNMS equipment needs initially
  surveyed during proposal-writing
• Input from 15 universities

• 2 Candidate Research Focus Areas also
• surveyed during Workshop
• Collaborative Needs section
• 3 Planning Workshop Breakout Session on
  Revolutionary Instruments for Nanoscale
  Characterization What Are We Missing?
• Suggestions by discussion and written survey

• SELECTION OF EQUIPMENT FOR CNMS
• Prioritized selection to be made as
  Research Focus Areas form
• Future Planning Workshops follow-on
  activities
• ORNL NSET programs Resource of both
  equipment and expertise
• Selectively incorporated in CNMS, but fully
  accessible for collaboration
• Guidance Advisory Committee, Proposal
  Selection Committees, Workshops

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The Nanofabrication Research Laboratory

• Addresses the need for a nanofabrication
  research capability within CNMS, to support
  collaboration with the university community
• Will integrate soft- and hard-materials
  approaches in the same structures, and
  conduct research on directed self-assembly
  for nanofabrication and linking to the
  microscale
• Will provide access to clean rooms,
  electron-beam lithography, high-resolution
  electron microscopy, various scanning probes,
  and specialized materials-handling facilities
• Fabrication and characterization tools in
  the service of nanocience
• By exploiting the extensive synthesis
  capabilities of the CNMS, the NRL can
  develop unique nanofabrication capabilities

The NRL will satisfy the strongly felt
need of universities for a well-equipped
nanofabrication facility to enable nanoscale
science investigations
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Complementarity to and Coordination with
Other Nanoscience Activities

• CNMS will be the premier Center in the
  world for nanoscience using neutrons
• Static / dynamic information complementary to
  other methods
• Coordination with other BES NSRCs is
  underway
• Active exploration and development of
  collaborative research interactions with
  federal / state / university Centers is
  underway
• Planning Workshop efforts of ORNL and
  university research leaders
• Research Focus Areas Champions and suggested
  associated Centers

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University Champions for Candidate Research
Focus Areas and Suggested Collaborating
Centers

• J. Bernholc (NCSU)
• J.K. Blasie (Pennsylvania)
• W. Butler (Alabama-MINT)
• R. Compton, G. Sayler (Tenn.)
• S. Das Sarma (Maryland)
• H. Dorn (Virginia Tech)
• L. Feldman, R. Haglund, S. Pantelides, S.
  Rosenthal (Vanderbilt)
• S. Glotzer (Michigan)
• E. Grulke (Kentucky)
• R. Hull (Virginia)
• J. Mays (Ala-Birm. / Tenn.)
• A. J. Millis (Rutgers)
• T. Russell (Massachusetts)
• D. Schlom (Penn State)
• Z. L. Wang (Georgia Tech)
• B. Yakobson (Rice)

• NSF Polymers and Biomaterials MRSECs at U. Mass.,
  U. Penn., Princeton, UCSB, U. Minn. others
• U. Alabama MINT Center
• Georgia Tech Center for Nanosci. Nanotech.
• U. Louisville Center for Nanotechnology
• U. Michigan Center for Computational Materials
  Research
• North Carolina Center for Nanoscale Materials
• Rice U. Center for Nanoscale Science and
  Technology
• U. Tennessee Center for Environmental
  Biotechnology and Tennessee Advanced Materials
  Laboratory
• Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science,
  Engineering and Biotechnology, and Laser Science
  Center
• U. Virginia Center for Nanoscopic Materials
  Design
• CINT (Sandia / Los Alamos)
• Molecular Foundry (LBNL)
• NASA Centers of Excellence (Langley, Ames)
• National High Magnetic Field Lab
• NIST Polymers Division Center for Neutron
  Research

Partial listing only
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Complementarity to and Coordination with
Other Nanoscience Activities

• CNMS will be the premier Center in the
  world for nanoscience using neutrons
• Static / dynamic information complementary to
  other methods
• Coordination with other BES NSRCs is
  underway
• Active exploration and development of
  collaborative research interactions with
  federal / state / university Centers is
  underway
• Planning Workshop efforts of ORNL and
  university research leaders
• Research Focus Areas Champions and suggested
  associated Centers
• CNMS candidate Research Focus Areas and
  mode of operation are highly synergistic
  with research of university collaborators
• CNMS will provide access to state-of-the-art
  capabilities
• synthesis and nanofabrication
• analysis / characterization
• theory / modeling / simulation
• Training for graduate students and
  postdoctoral scholars

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Synergies Between CNMS and a
UniversityNanoscience CenterGeorgia Techs
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• Synthesis The Role of Materials in
  Discovery
• An Example of CNMS Research Coordination
  and Complementarity

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ComputationalEquipment Resourcesfor CNMS

• Joint venture with ORNLs Center for
  Computational Sciences (CCS)
• Obtain dedicated simulation and modeling
  capabilities
• CCS has state-of-the-art terascale
  computational
• science facilities and expertise
• One of two DOE High-Performance Computing
  Research Centers
• Research focus Computational materials
  science and nanosciences
• CNMS will provide computational
  infrastructure
• for nanoscience research visitors to
  interface with CCS
• Cost-effective access to terascale computing

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Access to Other ORNL Assets

• CNMS will internally coordinate reviews of
  requests to access other ORNL User
  Facilities or Collaborative Research Centers
  (CRCs)
• Access to CNMS Proposal Selection
  Committees (peer review)
• Timely, one-stop access to all needed
  nanoscience resources
• Rapid access to other facilities after
  visitor is on-site
• Submit request to Facility Director
  Approval of short-term rapid access, or
  immediate referral to facilitys own review
  process
• Other Facilities Available via CNMS
• Spallation Neutron Source High-Flux
  Isotope Reactor
• Center for Computational Sciences
• Center for Structural Molecular Biology
  (SANS, mass spectrometry, computational
  biology)
• High Temperature Materials Laboratory (six
  user centers)
• Shared Research Equipment CRC (incl.
  atomic-resolution microscopy)
• Metals Processing Laboratory User Center
  (four user centers)

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Laboratory Commitments to CNMS

• ORNL has strong, diverse, nationally known
  resources
• of nanoscience expertise and leadership
• 12M LDRD Initiative for NSET (FY2000-2003)
• Two winning proposals in first BES NSET
  competition (FY2001)
• ORNL Strategic Plan and Laboratory Agenda
• Science at the boundaries Linking
  different disciplines to address fundamental
  scientific and technical challenges
• Goals and Commitments
• Worlds foremost center for neutron sciences
• Center of excellence for understanding
  complex biological systems
• Develop terascale high-performance computing
  and simulation capabilities
• Sustain leading position in chemical
  sciences and advanced materials science and
  technology
• Special commitments Expand NSET
  capabilities develop extraordinary tools for
  materials characterization extend synthesis
  and characterization capabilities to enable
  exploration of soft materials
• All of these goals and commitments strongly
  advance CNMS

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External Support for CNMS

• State of Tennessee 8M Joint Institute
  for Neutron Sciences (JINS) facility
• Dining and housing adjacent to CNMS for
  visiting students and scientists
• Auditorium (workshops / conferences),
  classrooms, video-conferences and distance
  learning
• University of Tennessee
• Committed to collaboration in all areas
  necessary for CNMS success, as part of
  universitys initiative to expand neutron
  and materials science research capabilities
• Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
• Committed to help support workshops,
  symposia, development of research
  partnerships, joint faculty appointments
• Facilitate interactions with nearly 100
  member colleges and universities
• Nanoscience research participation for
  advanced undergraduates