# Presentation: 544008

## Bridging Length Scales:Connecting Nanoscale Scienceto Real-World Technologies

**Self-assembling  building  blocks  or  templates**
**“****Bottom-up”  approach  to  ****directed **** self-assembly**
**Linking the nanoscale to the microscale and beyond**
**Integrating ORNL and university science using CNMS Nanofabrication Research Laboratory**
**Thin film oxide fuel cells with nanoscale functionality**
**Nanoscale solid oxides with improved conversion efficiency (ORNL LDRD -- P. Becher, I. Kosacki, *****et al*****.)**
**Carbon nanotube arrays for massively parallel  E-beam lithography**
**DARPA application of DOE fundamental research **

- Bridging Length Scales:Connecting Nanoscale Scienceto Real-World Technologies

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## CNMS Connections to the Private Sector

***How to promote interactions?***
**If you hold a “nano”-science workshop, they will come!**
**ORNL workshop involved 10 private companies, including three venture capital investment companies with ~$100M each**
**ORNL has a strong track record in tech transfer and CRADAs with industry**
**CNMS will be an enabler for the evolution of nanoscience to industrial nanotechnology**
**Strong nanoscience/tech transfer already underway at ORNL, especially small companies**
**CRADAs with major companies, including Motorola and Seagate Technologies**
**Include industrial partners in research focus areas **
**Industrial member will be on CNMS Advisory Committee**

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## Broad Implications for Energy Technologies

**Fuel cells (nanostructured ionic conductors)**
**Catalysts (improved efficiency and selectivity)**
**Clathrates (carbon sequestration and energy supply)**
**Sensors (highly specific environmental sensors)**
**Energy transmission materials (next generation superconductors)**
**Materials with improved thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, etc. for energy applications**
**Structural materials (light weight, high strength nano-composites)**
**Energy storage (carbon-based nanostructures)**
**Improved magnets (lighter weight motors)**
**Energy generation (nanostructured photovoltaics)**
**Self-assembled ordered materials (membranes for separation)**

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## CNMS Collaborations Will Leverage Nanoscience Investments of States and Federal Agencies

**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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## How to Protect Our Leading Scientists from Administrative Burden

**Hire excellent support staff!**
**Dedicated administrative support for scientific staff**
**Establish a Deputy Director position**
**Protect scientific thrust leaders (and part of Director!)**
***Equally important --***
**Focus top scientists on building, leading, and maintaining world-leading science programs and collaborations **

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