Magnetic nanoparticles and nanowires have a wide range of applications including magnetic storage, ferrofluids, targeted drug delivery, and magnetic resonance imaging. The magnetic behavior of these nanoparticles is dependent on the physical properties of these particles. The most important physical characteristics include chemical composition, particle size and size distribution, particle morphology, secondary phases, and intrinsic materials parameters (e.g., magnetocrystalline anisotropy, saturation magnetization, etc.). Applications for biology, nanoelectronics, and coatings also require a thorough understanding of surface composition and phases which strongly influence the ability to interact with organic, inorganic, and biological materials. This focused symposium is designed to present current multidisciplinary research on the synthesis, surface functionalization, characterization, modeling of magnetic nanoparticles and nanowires, and their processing and incorporation into materials and devices.
Session Topics
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Self assembly of nanoparticles
- Electronics
- Ferrofluids
- Biomagnetic nanoparticles
- Synthesis
- Novel characterization techniques
- Composites
- Magnetism in nanoparticles
- Soft and hard magnetic nanoparticles
Invited Speakers
| M. Abe (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan), J.R. Childress (Hitachi, Japan), G.M. Chow (National Univ. of Singapore), R. Claus (Nanosonics), Arthur F. Hebard (Univ. of Florida), M. McHenry (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), M. Muhammed (Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden), C. Murray (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), J. Narayan (North Carolina State Univ.), Xiaoxing Pan (Univ. of Michigan), Quentin Pankhurst (Univ. College London, United Kingdom), S.J. Pennycook (Oak Ridge National Lab), D. Reich (Johns Hopkins Univ.), C. Renner (NEC Labs America, Inc.), T. Russell (Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst), R. Shull (NIST), S. Sun (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), and M. Tondra (NVE Corp.). |
Symposium Organizers
D. Kumar
North Carolina A&T State University, Dept. of Mechanical & Chemical Engineering, Greensboro, NC 27411
Tel: 336-256-1151
Fax: 336-256-1153
dkumar@ncat.edu |
L. Kurihara
Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6363
Washington, DC 20375
Tel: 202-767-2563
Fax: 202-404-8933
kurihara@anvil.nrl.navy.mil
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I. W. Boyd
University College London, Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Torrington Place
London, WC1E 7JE
United Kingdom
Tel: 44-0-207-679-7307
Fax: 44-0-207-388-9325
i.boyd@ee.ucl.ac.uk
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G. Duscher
North Carolina State University
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
Raleigh, NC 27695
Tel: 919-515-1104
Fax: 919-515-1699
gerd_duscher@ncsu.edu
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V. Harris
Northeastern University
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
440 Dana Research Center, 360 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115-5000
Tel: 617-373-7603
Fax: 617-373-4853
harris@ece.neu.edu
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