# Presentation: 146425

## NSRC Rollout

## NSRC Roll-Out Update 

**Website**
- Developed common format to be used on all NSRC web sites.
**One-Page Center Description**
- Established design for one-page flyer; one for each center and a separate one for the NSRC program.
**Professional Society Contacts**
- Identified set of organizations and assigned point of contact for each.
**Vugraph Briefing Package**
- Short and full version in preparation
**February Workshop**

## NSRC Updates 

## Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne

**For information contact Sam Bader:**
**bader@anl.gov, 630.252.4960; http://nano.anl.gov/, nano@anl.gov**

-  **CNM Building is funded by the State of Illinois**
-  Attaches to Advanced Photon Source
- >50% of planned state funds have been appropriated
-  Title I Design 50% complete; Construction Manager selected
-  Start of construction anticipated Summer 2003
-  **DOE approved CD-0 for Equipment Project**
-  CDR in preparation, anticipating Lehman review in March
-  Complete Nanoprobe Beamline design by September

** ****Jumpstarting User Program **
- Activating advisory committees
- Facilities identified for “jumpstart user program”
-  Coordinating user interface with APS & IPNS: “one-stop”
- Planning FY2003 Nanoscience Workshops & CNM Summer School

** ****Launching CNM research areas **

## BNL Center For Functional Nanomaterials

**Jumpstart**
- Program planned
- PSP, SAC established
- Preliminary hires targeted
- Laboratories will be available in cluster areas: Electron Microscopy, Materials Synthesis,  Nanopatterning,  Proximal Probes, Ultrafast Optical Sources, Nanocenter-NSLS GU Program, Theory/Computation

**Project**
- Mission Need Approved (CD-0)
- Conceptual Design in process, CDR draft mid-November
- Lehman Review tentative early February 2003
- Engineering start (CD-1) anticipated March 2003
- Construction start projected FY2005

**Scientific Thrust Areas**
- Strongly Correlated Oxides
- Magnetic Nanoassemblies
- Nanocatalyst Materials
- Charge Injection and Transport
- Nanostructured Organic Films
- Applications of Nanoscience

**Workshops**
- Major BNL Workshop-March 2002
- Other workshops
- Workshop on Applications of Synchrotron Radiation in Nanoscience and Technology, May 23, 2001
- “Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale,” Chemical Sciences sponsored workshop, January 2002
- EPENS, “International Workshop on Electron-Phonon Effect in Nanosystems, September 23-25, 2002
- CESP Nanomagnetic Materials Workshop, October 21-22, 2002
- Nanotechnology Business Roadmap, October 15, 2002
- Nanoscience Writers Roundtable, October 30, 2002
- LI Business Alliance Workshop, December 2002

**Unique Facilities**
- NSLS
- TEM
- LEAF

## The Molecular FoundryA. P. Alivisatos, Director

**Foundry Building**
- Near NCEM and Materials Sciences Laboratories
- Design complete Q1 2003
- Construction start Q4 2003
- Beneficial occupancy Q1 2006
- Full operations Q4 2006
- Theory and most user offices on 3rd floor
**Facilities**
- Inorganic Nanostructures
- Nanofabrication
- Organic, Polymer/Biopolymer Synthesis
- Biological Nanostructures
- Imaging and Manipulation
- Theory

******-User” Program-2003**
- 6 facilities with limited equipment
- Hire  lead scientists
- Call for proposals: short-term  and long term collaborators
- Outreach

## Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

**Core**
**Facility**

**Gateway**
**to**
**Los Alamos**

**Construction Project**
- CD-1 Approved 6/02
- Core Title I in progress
- Gateway Perf. Spec. initiated
- Review scheduled for 4/03
- Construction start 1/04

**Science Thrusts**
- Nanoelectronics/nanophotonics
- Nano/Bio/Micro Interfaces
- Complex Functional Nanomaterials
- Nanomechanics
- Theory and Simulation

**User Program**
- CINT Management Team
- Joint laboratory MOU
- Governance Board
- Scientific Advisory Committee

**FY03 Jump-Start**
- National User Facilities
- Major NNSA Facilities
- User Agreements (IP, access, training)

***“******One community focused on nanoscience integration”***

## Center For Nanophase Materials Sciences

**“****Jump Start” *****Program Development Plan***** with focus on**
**	****Nanofabrication**
**	****Synthetic & Bio-Inspired Macro-**
**	****     ****molecular Materials**
**	****Catalysis**
**	****Nanotubes and Related Materials**
**	****Nanoscale Magnetism and Collective**
**	****     ****Behavior**
**	****Oxide Materials Integration**
**	****Nanoscale Imaging and Manipulation**
**	****Theory / Modeling / Simulation**

**Center For Nanophase Materials Sciences**

- Integrates  Nanoscale  Science  with  synergistic  national
- research  needs in
-    *Neutron  Science*
*   **Synthesis & Integration  of*
*      **soft  and  hard  materials*
*   **Theory / Modeling / Simulation*

**Project Status**
**	****90% design complete & under review**
**	****Equipment suite identified**
**	****CD-2 approved**
**	****CD-3 scheduled for Feb. 2003**
**Second Planning  Workshop**
**	****315 registrants from 88 institutions**
**	****Greatest Challenges & Opportunities**
**	****   ****identified with scientific community**

## NSRC February 03 Workshop 

## February 26-28, 2003 

- Renaissance Hotel
- Washington, D.C.
- February 26-28, 2003

**A forum for communication among agencies, policymakers, and the scientific community**
- •	Learn about national priorities in research and nanoscale science and engineering
- 	from key Senators and Representatives, the President's Science Advisor, and
- 	funding agency and scientific community leaders
- •	Learn about research opportunities in nanoscale science and engineering at the
- 	DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers and related facilities
- •	Participate in the first national users meeting for DOE's Nanoscale Science
- 	Research Centers

## Program Highlights

- •	Keynote presentations on nanoscale science and national competitiveness by John Marburger (Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) and
- 	Ray Orbach (Director of the DOE Office of Science)
- •	Science and industry sessions with keynote presentations by nanoscience and nanotechnology leaders including Nobelist Richard Smalley (Rice), George Whitesides (Harvard), Gabor Somorjai (Berkeley), Larry Bock (Nanosys, Inc.), and Tom Theis (IBM)
- •     Perspectives from key politicians including Senators and Representatives with oversight responsibility for science and technology
- •     Agency presentations on the National Nanotechnology Initiative and research opportunities in nanoscale science including a panel discussion and question and answer session
- •     A banquet including a presentation on future priorities for federal research by a leading political spokesperson
- •     Poster presentations from the NSRCs including a student poster session
- •     A users meeting with presentations by Patricia Dehmer, Director of the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and the center directors

**Program Highlights**

## February 26-28, 2003

- Renaissance Hotel
- Washington, D.C.
- Announcement
- Preliminary Program
- Workshop Registration
- Hotel Information
- Nanoscale Science Research Centers
- National Nanotechnology Initiative
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- http://www.ornl.gov/doe_nsrc_workshop/