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Program / MRS Symposium R
Nanoporous and Nanostructured Materials for Catalysis, Sensor, and Gas Separation Applications
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Chairs
Song Wei Lu     PPG Industries, Inc.
Horst Hahn     Technical University of Darmstadt
J Weissmueller     Research Center Karlsruhe
James L. Gole     Georgia Institute of Technology

Symposium Support
Donors of The American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
PPG Industries Inc

Proceedings to be published online
(see ONLINE PUBLICATIONS at www.mrs.org)
as volume 876E
of the Materials Research Society
Symposium Proceedings Series.
This volume may be published in print format after the meeting.

* Invited paper

SESSION R1: Porous Nanostructures by Anodic Oxidation
Chair: Horst Hahn
Monday Afternoon, March 28, 2005
Room 3001 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *R1.1
Ordered Porous Alumina and Related Structures. Ulrich Goesele, Petra Goering, Woo Lee, Mato Knez, Kornelius Nielsch, Martin Steinhart, Yiming Sun and Danilo Zschech; Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany.

2:00 PM R1.2
Nano-Porous Titanium Oxide Morphologies Produced by Anodizing of Titanium. Glenn Paul Sklar, Harpreet Singh, Vishal Mahajan, Devendra Gorhe, Shantanu Namjoshi, and Jeff C. LaCombe; Materials Science, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada.

2:15 PM R1.3
The Synthesis of Alumina Nano-Fibers, Grown on the Surface of a Porous Alumina Membrane. Ryan S. McGrath, MS&E, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada.

2:30 PM R1.4
Fabrication of Patterned Arrays with Alternating Regions of Aluminum and Porous Aluminum Oxide. Dmitri A. Brevnov1, Marcos J. Barela1, Todd M. Bauer2, Gabriel P. Lopez1 and Plamen B. Atanassov1; 1Chem & Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2:45 PM BREAK

SESSION R2: Novel Concepts and Applications of Nanoporous Materials
Chair: Joerg Weissmueller
Monday Afternoon, March 28, 2005
Room 3001 (Moscone West)

3:00 PM *R2.1
Doubly Bicontinuous Mesoporous Metals. Jonah Erlebacher, Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

3:30 PM R2.2
Initial Steps of Surface Restructuring by Dealloying: An In-situ X-ray Diffraction Study of Cu3Au(111). Frank Uwe Renner1,2, Andreas Stierle2, Tien Lin Lee1, Helmut Dosch2, Dieter Kolb3 and Jorg Zegenhagen1; 1ESRF, Grenoble, France; 2MPI-MF, Stuttgart, Germany; 3Departement of Electrochemistry, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.

3:45 PM R2.3
Nanostructured Surfaces for Boiling Enhancement. Shanghua Li1, Muhammet Toprak1, Mamoun Muhammed1, Richard Furberg2 and Bjorn Palm2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; 2Energy Technology, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

4:00 PM R2.4
Suppressing Sublimation of Thermoelectric Power Generators Using Opacified Aerogel. Jong-Ah Paik, Steven M. Jones, Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Thierry Calliat and Jeffrey S. Sakamoto; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

4:15 PM *R2.5
Reversible Strain in Porous Metals Charged in Electrolytes. Dominik Kramer, Institute of Nanotechnology INT, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany.

4:45 PM R2.6
Tuning the Magnetic Moment of Nanoporous Transition Metals by Electrochemical Charging. Christian Lemier1, Joerg Weissmueller1,2, Sadhan Ghosh1 and Raghavan Nadar Viswanath1; 1Institut fuer Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany; 2Fachrichtung Technische Physik, Universitaet des Saarlandes, 66041 Saarbruecken, Germany.

SESSION R3: Capillary Phenomena and Transport
Chair: Jonah Erlebacher
Monday Evening, March 28, 2005
Golden Gate C1/C2/C3 (Marriott)

8:00 PM *R3.1
Solidified Fillings of Nanopores. Klaus Knorr, Technische Physik, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany.

8:30 PM R3.2
Cationic Motion and Conduction in Zeolites - A Systematic Study of Anion Effects on Local Motion and Long Range Transport. Hubert Koller1, Edgar Jordan1, Dirk Wilmer1 and Robert G. Bell2; 1Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany; 2Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution, London, United Kingdom.

8:45 PM R3.3
The Role of Pore Size, Curvature and Structure on the Thermal Stability of Gold Nanoparticles Within Mesoporous Silica. Mangesh T. Bore1, Hien N. Pham1, Elise E. Switzer1, Timothy L. Ward1, Atsushi Fukuoka2 and Abhaya K. Datye1; 1Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

9:00 PM R3.4
Atomistic Simulations of Surface Segregation in Pt-Bimetallic Catalyst Nanoparticles. Guofeng Wang1, M. A. Van Hove1, P. N. Ross1 and M. I. Baskes2; 1Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; 2MST-8 Structure and Property Relation Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Almos, New Mexico.

9:15 PM R3.5
Gas and Liquid Transport Through a Carbon Nanotube/Silicon Nitride Permeable Membrane. Jason Holt, Aleksandr Noy, Thomas Huser, David Eaglesham and Olgica Bakajin; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

SESSION R4: Heterogeneous Catalysis based on Nanoporous and Nanostructured Materials
Chair: Song Wei Lu
Tuesday Morning, March 29, 2005
Room 3001 (Moscone West)

NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM *R4.1
Nanostructure Processing of Advanced Catalysts, Sorbents and Separation Media. Jackie Ying and Pemakorn Pitukmanorn, The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The Nanos, Singapore.

8:30 AM R4.2
Preparation and Characterization of Fibrous Cerium Oxide Templated from Activated Carbon Fibers. Mark Crocker, Uschi Graham, Rolando Gonzalez, Erin Morris, Gary Jacobs and Rodney Andrews; Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

8:45 AM R4.3
Size and Shape Dependent Catalytic Properties of Pt Nanoparticles Supported on Mesoporous SBA-15 Silica. Robert M. Rioux1,2, Hyunjoon Song1,2, Peidong Yang1,2 and Gabor A. Somorjai1,2; 1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 2Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.

9:00 AM R4.4
Designs and Fabrications of New Catalytic Nanostructures. Z. Ryan Tian, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR; J. Liu and J.A. Voigt, Department of Chemical Synthesis and Nanomaterials, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

9:15 AM *R4.5
Catalysis by Metals: From Supported Nanoclusters to Single Crystals. David Wayne Goodman, Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Utah.

9:45 AM R4.6
Surface Defect-Mediated Reactivity of Au/TiO2(110). Minghu Pan2, Ken Taesung Park1,2, Vincent Meunier3, William Shelton3, Sergei Kalinin4, Arthur Baddorf4 and E. Ward Plummer2,4; 1Physics, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; 2Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; 3Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 4Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *R4.7
Energetics, Surface Reactions and Sintering of Nanoparticles: Size Effects. Charles T. Campbell, Chemistry, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

11:00 AM R4.8
Structural Changes of Bimetallic PdxCu1-x Nanocatalysts Developed for Nitrate Reduction of Drinking Water. Huiping Xu1, Ray Twesten2, Kathryn Guy2, John Shapley2, Anatoly Frenkel3, Duane Johnson2 and Judith C. Yang1; 1Dept of Mat Sci & Engr, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 2University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 3Yeshiva University, New York, New York.

11:15 AM R4.9
Preparation, Characterization and Reactivity of Nanoparticles Grown on Surfaces by Reactive Vapor Deposition. Jan Hrbek1, J. Horn2,1, Z. Song1, D. Potapenko1 and M. G. White2,1; 1Chemistry, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, New York; 2Chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York.

11:30 AM R4.10
Catalytic CO Oxidation with Gold and Platinum Loaded Free Standing Mesoporous Titania Films. Todd Aaron Ostomel1, Peter K. Stoimenov1, Nathan R. Franklin1,2, Eric W. McFarland2 and Galen D. Stucky1; 1Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 2Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

11:45 AM R4.11
Preparation and Characterization of Highly Dispersed Catalytic Metal Oxide Nanoparticles by Localized Deposition in Mesoporous Silica. Bing Tan and Stephen E. Rankin; Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

SESSION R5: Fundamental Phenomena of Photocatalytic Materials at the Nanoscale
Chair: James Gole
Tuesday Afternoon, March 29, 2005
Room 3001 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM R5.1
Synthesis and Photocatalytic Activities of HLaNb2O7/(Pt, Fe2O3) Porous Nanomaterials. Jihuai Wu, Yinghan Cheng and Jianming Lin; Huaqiao University, Institute of Materials Physical Chemistry, Quan Zhou, Fujian, China.

1:45 PM R5.2
Visible Light Photocatalysis via Nano-Composite CdS/TiO2 Materials. Sesha S. Srinivasan, Jeremy Wade and Elias K. Stefanakos; Clean Energy Research Center, College of Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

2:00 PM R5.3
Raman Spectroscopy Analysis of Ultrathin Photocatalysis Titania Coatings by Chemical Vapor Deposition. Song Wei Lu, Caroline Harris, Walck D. Scott and Arbab Mehran; PPG Industries, Inc., Glass Technology Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

2:15 PM R5.4
Deposition of Nanostructured Titania Films and Particles. Jorma K. Jokiniemi, Ulrika Backman, Unto Tapper and Ari Auvinen; Fine Particles and Catalysis, VTT Processes, Espoo, Finland.

2:30 PM R5.5
Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue in Periodic Mesoporous Nanocrystalline Anatase Films. Moises A. Carreon1, Sung Yeun Choi1, Marc Mamak1, Naveen Chopra2 and Geoffrey A. Ozin1; 1Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2Xerox Research Centre of Canada, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

2:45 PM BREAK

3:15 PM *R5.6
Nanoscale Titania and C60: From Environmental Impacts to Photocatalysis. Vicki L. Colvin, Chemistry, MS60, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

3:45 PM R5.7
Advanced Photocatalysis with Anatase Nanocoated Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Georgios Pyrgiotakis1, Sung-Hwan Lee1, Vijay Krishna1,2, Ben Koopman3,2, Brij Moudgil1,2 and Wolfgang Michael Sigmund1,2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; 2Particle Engineering Research Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; 3Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

4:00 PM R5.8
Fabrication and Optical Characterization of Structures with High Surface to Volume Ratio in Sintered TiO2. David Maestre, Ana Cremades and Javier Piqueras; Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

4:15 PM R5.9
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

4:30 PM R5.10
Semiconducting Chalcogenide Aerogels for Applications in Gas Sensing and Photocatalysis. Indika Arachchige, Jaya L. Mohanan and Stephanie L. Brock; Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

4:45 PM R5.11
Synthesis and Characterization of Photocatalytic TiO2/ZnFe2O4 Nanoparticles. Jeremy Wade, Sesha S. Srinivasan and Elias K. Stefanakos; Clean Energy Research Center, College of Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

SESSION R6: Gas-Sensing Mechanism in Nanoscale and Size-Dependent Gas Sensing Properties
Chair: Stephanie Brock
Wednesday Morning, March 30, 2005
Room 3001 (Moscone West)

NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM R6.1
High-Throughput Impedance Spectroscopy (HTIS) for the Characterisation of Nanoscaled Gas Sensing Materials. Daniel Sanders, Maike Siemons, Tobias Koplin and Ulrich Simon; Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, NRW, Germany.

8:15 AM R6.2
Silicon Nanocrystals: Photosensitizers for Molecular Oxygen. Dmitri Kovalev, Physics Department, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany.

8:30 AM *R6.3
Oxide Nanobelts for Electromechanical Coupled Nanosensors. Zhong L. Wang, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

R6.4
All-Optical Chemical Gas Sensors for Harsh Environments Based on Au- YSZ Nanocomposite Films. George Sirinakis, Rezina Siddique, Zhouying Zhao and Michale A. Carpenter; College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University of Albany, Albany, New York.

9:15 AM R6.5
Hydrogen Sensors Using Palladium Quantum Dots on Silicon Carbide for High Temperature Applications. Claudiu I. Muntele and Daryush Ila; Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama.

9:30 AM R6.6
ZnO Nanostructures Synthesized via Double-Tube Vapor Phase Transport for Gas Sensing Applications. Yuxi Chen, Lesley Anglin Campbell and Weilie Zhou; Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.

9:45 AM BREAK

10:15 AM R6.7
Gas Sensing Properties of Nano-Crystalline BaxSr1-xTiO3 Thin Films − An Emerging Application. Somnath Chanda Roy1, G. L. Sharma1, M. C. Bhatnagar1 and S. B. Samanta2; 1Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India; 2National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India.

10:30 AM R6.8
Layer by Layer Composite Thin Films as Adsorptive, Gas Sensing Coatings. Nicole Zacharia and Paula T. Hammond; Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

10:45 AM R6.9
Controlled Electrophoretic Patterning of Conducting Polyaniline from a Colloidal Suspension for Gas Sensing. Guofeng Li and Steve Semancik; Process Sensing Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

11:00 AM R6.10
TiO2 Nanofibers Created by Gas Phase Reaction with H2. Sehoon Yoo1, Carmen M. Carney1, Sheikh A. Akbar1 and Ken H. Sandhage2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; 2Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

11:15 AM R6.11
Fabrication of Tin Oxide Nanowires by Chemical Vapor Deposition. Sun Sook Lee and Bethanie J. H. Stadler; Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

R6.12
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

11:30 AM R6.13
Chemical Sensing with Polyaniline Nanofibers. Bruce Weiller1, Shabnam Virji2,1, Jiaxing Huang2 and Richard B. Kaner2; 1Materials Processing and Evaluation Department, Space Materials Laboratory, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, California; 2Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Exotic Materials Institute and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

SESSION R7: Sensing Device Configuration Using Nanoscale Materials
Chair: Helmut Foell
Wednesday Afternoon, March 30, 2005
Room 3001 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *R7.1
Gaint Double-Layer Charge Injection Without Contacting Electrolyte: Properties Tuning and Device Applications. Dong-Seok Suh1, Alan G. MacDiarmid1, Edgar Munoz1, W. Joshua Kennedy2, Zeev V. Vardeny2, Anvar A. Zakhidov1, Vladimir Agranovitch1, Alan B. Dalton1, Steve Collins1, Mei Zhang1, Von H. Ebron1, John P. Ferraris1, Ali Aliev1, Sergey Lee1 and Ray H. Baughman1; 1Chemistry and NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; 2Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2:00 PM R7.2
Property of Nanoporous Anatase Titania Oxygen Sensor Depending on Particle Size and Device Configuration. Yong-sang Cho1, Markus Winterer2 and Horst Hahn1; 1Material Science and Engineering, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; 2Department of Engineering, University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany.

2:15 PM R7.3
A Comparative Analysis: Localized and Propagating Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors. Chanda Ranjit Yonzon and Richard P. Van Duyne; Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

2:30 PM R7.4
Robust Nanostructured Gas Microsensor Platform from Self-Organized Anodic Alumina. Dmitri Routkevitch, Oleg Polyakov, Debra Deininger and Clayton Kostelecky; Synkera Technologies Inc., Longmont, Colorado.

2:45 PM R7.5
Detection of NO2 Down to ppb Levels Using Individual and Multiple In2O3 Nanowire Devices. Daihua Zhang, Zuqin Liu, Chao Li and Chongwu Zhou; EEEP, University of Souther California, Los Angeles, California.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:15 PM *R7.6
Inorganic Nanotube Based Ionic Transistors. Peidong Yang and Arun Majumdar; Univ. Calif. Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

3:45 PM R7.7
Nanoscale Electronic Nose for CO and SO2 Detection. Arun Kumar1, Brian Brantley2 and Ashok Kumar1,2; 1Nanomaterial and Nanomanufacturing Research Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florda, Tampa, Florida.

4:00 PM R7.8
From Nanostructures to Porous Silicon: Sensors, Photocatalytic Reactors and Battery Electrodes. James L. Gole1,2, Steven Lewis1 and Peter Hesketh2; 1School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 2School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

4:15 PM R7.9
Formation of Silver Nanoparticles in Sputtered Silver Oxide Layers and Molecular Sensing by Them. Makoto Fujimaki1, Yasuhiko Iwanabe1,2, Koichi Awazu1 and Junji Tominaga1; 1Center for Applied Near-Field Optics Research, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; 2Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

4:30 PM R7.10
Hydrogen Gas Sensing Using Nanoporous SiC. Timothy J. Fawcett1, John T. Wolan1, W. J. Choyke3 and Stephen E. Saddow2; 1Chemical Engineering, USF, Tampa, Florida; 2Electrical Engineering, USF, Tampa, Florida; 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

4:45 PM R7.11
Engineering of Porous, Tin Oxide Nanoparticle Microshells for Sensor Applications. Carlos J. Martinez1, Christopher Montgomery1, Bernard Hockey2 and Steve Semancik1; 1Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland; 2Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

SESSION R8: Poster Session: Nanoporous and Nanostructured Materials for Catalysis, Sensor, and Gas Separation Applications
Chairs: James Gole and Song Wei Lu
Wednesday Evening, March 30, 2005
8:00 PM
Salons 8-15 (Marriott)

R8.1
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

R8.2
Transferred to R7.2

R8.3
All-Optical Chemical Gas Sensors for Harsh Environments Based on Au-YSZ Nanocomposite Films. George Sirinakis, Rezina Siddique, Zhouying Zhao and Michael A. Carpenter; College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany, Albany, New York.

R8.4
Gas Sensing Properties of Tin Oxide Powder Synthesized in Presence of Surfactants. Kiran Jain1, Ms. Rashmi2 and S. T. Lakshmikumar1; 1Electronic Materials Division, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India; 2Materials Characterization Division, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India.

R8.5
Gas Sensing in Nanostructured Perovskite Sm0.9Ba0.1CoO3-y Prepared by a Solution Method. Carlos R. Michel, Emilio Delgado and Arturo Chavez; Physics, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

R8.6
Ag Doped WO3 Films for Gas Sensing Studied by High Resolution Photoelectron Spectroscopy. Carla Bittencourt1, F. Mirabella1, P. Ivanov2, E. Llobet2, M. A. P. Silva3, L. A. O. Nunes3 and J. J. Pireaux1; 1LISE/FUNDP, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium; 2Depatament d Enginyeria Electronica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain; 3Instituto de Fisica de Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil.

R8.7
Synthesis of Tin Oxide Nanoparticles Using a Mini-Arc Plasma Source. Ganhua Lu1,3, Junhong Chen1,3 and Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska2,3; 1Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 2Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 3Laboratory for Surface Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

R8.8
Long-Term Stability of the Thermally-Carbonized Porous Silicon Humidity Sensor. Jaani Tuura, Mikko Bjorkqvist, Jarno Salonen and Vesa-Pekka Lehto; Laboratory of Industrial Physics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

R8.9
Nanomagnetic Ni Array in Porous Silicon as a Possible Magnetic Field Sensor in the High Field Range up to 7 T. Petra Granitzer, Klemens Rumpf and Heinz Krenn; Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

R8.10
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

R8.11
SiC Supported VPO Catalyst for the Partial Oxidation of n-Butane to Maleic Anhydride. Ala'a Kababji and John T. Wolan; Chemical Engineering, USF, Tampa, Florida.

R8.12
Facile Fabrication and Integration of Patterned Nanostructured Titania into Microsystems: Effect of Parent Ti Microstructure on Kinetics of Reaction. Diana DeRosa1,3, Zuruzi Abu Samah1,2 and Noel MacDonald1,2; 1Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California; 2Mechanical and Environmental Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California; 3Biosystems Engineering and, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

R8.13
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

R8.14
Characterization of Noble Metal Nanocluster. Galif Kutluk1, Shinya Yagi2, Hirosuke Sumida3, Hirofumi Namatame4 and Masaki Taniguchi4; 1Innovation Plaza, Hiroshima, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Higashi-hiroshima,, Japan; 2Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; 3Mazda Motor Co., Hiroshima, Japan; 4Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan.

R8.15
Highly Oriented Plate-Like Nanorods Arrays of ZnO. Ying Dai1, Yan Jin Li2, Xin Mei Pei1 and Long Qiang Zhou1; 1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China; 2Administration of Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.

R8.16
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

R8.17
Transferrred to R5.1

R8.18
Synthesis of Dendrimer-Encapsulated Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. Robert L. Paddock, Venkateswarlu Juttukonda, Jason K. Vohs and Bradley Dean Fahlman; Department of Chemistry, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

R8.19
Photo-Reactive Organic Semiconductor Nano Particles. Tzung-Fang Guo1, Jien-Wei Lu2 and Thou-Jen Whang2; 1Institute of Electro-Optical Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; 2Department of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

R8.20
Template Preparation of Multi-Segment Pt and Pt/Ru Nanorods as DMFC Anode Electrocatalysts in Acid Electrolytes. Fang Liu1, Jim Yang Lee1,2 and Weijiang Zhou1; 1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; 2Singapore-MIT Alliance, Singapore, Singapore.

R8.21
Clays Pillared by Zirconia Nanoparticles: Specificity of Structure and Adsorption Properties as Related to Catalysis of NOx Selective Reduction by Hydrocarbons in the Excess of Oxygen. Vladislav A. Sadykov1, Tatyana G. Kuznetsova1, Rimma V. Bunina1, Natalia V. Mezentseva1, Dmitrii Efremov1, Vasilii Avdeev1, Vladimir P. Doronin1, Vladimir L. Kuznetsov1, Valerii A. Matyshak2, Valerii V. Lunin3 and Aleksandr M. Volodin2; 1Heterog. Catalysis, Boreskov Inst. of Catalysis, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; 2Semenov Inst. of Chem. Phys., Moscow, Russian Federation; 3Chem. Dep. of Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Moscow, Russian Federation.

R8.22
Homogeneous Catalysts Tethered to Carbon Nanotubes. Leonard S. Fifield1, John C. Linehan1, R. Shane Addleman1, Christopher L. Aardahl1, J. David Newell2 and Thomas E. Bitterwolf2; 1Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington; 2University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.

R8.23
Patterning Ion-Channel Functionality in Supported Membranes Using Topochemically Patterned Sol-Gel Silica Supports. Calvin Yang1,2, Chanel K. Yee2 and Atul N. Parikh2; 1Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis, Davis, California; 2Dept. of Applied Science, UC Davis, Davis, California.

R8.24
Preparation of a Supported Si3N4 Membrane for Gas Separation. Fei Cheng1, Stephen M. Kelly1, Stephen Clark1, John S. Bradley1, Marc Baumbach2 and Andreas Schutze2; 1Chemistry, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom; 2Lab for Measurement Technology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany.

R8.25
Sol-Gel Derived Aminosilicate Nanoporous Molecular Sieve Membrane for CO2/Air Separations. George Xomeritakis1, Andy Tsai2,1 and Jeffrey Brinker3,1; 1Center for Microengineered Materials, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2T3 Scientific LLC, Arden Hills, Minnesota; 3Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, Minnesota.

R8.26
Transferred to R10.2

R8.27
Characterization of Nanoporous Materials Prepared from Montmorillonite Clay and its Application to the Decolorization of Mare's Milk Oil. Temuujin Jadambaa1, Mamoru Senna1, Jadambaa Tsedev2, Burmaa Dashdendev2, Erdenechimeg Shaarii2 and Amarsanaa Jadambaa2; 1Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; 2New Materials Center, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

R8.28
Micropatterning and Structural Orientation of Mesoporous Silica Thin Films with One-Dimensional Oriented Cylindrical Pores. Chia-Wen Wu1 and Makoto Kuwabara2; 1Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 2Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan.

R8.29
Thin Film Deposition on Opal Matrix. Yury Panfilov1 and Michail Samoilovich2; 1MT-11, Moscow State Bauman University of Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation; 2Photonics, Technomash, Moscow, Russian Federation.

R8.30
New Open-Framework Materials. Xianhui Bu, Cal. State Univ. Long Beach, Riverside, California.

R8.31
Fabrication of Anodic Alumina Film with Custom-Designed Arrays of Nanochannels. Nai-Wei Liu1,2, Anindya Datta1, Chih-Yi Liu1, Huai-Hsien Wang3, Cheng-Yi Peng3 and Yuh-Lin Wang1,3; 1Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

R8.32
Silver-Filled Porous Anodic Alumina Substrate with Uniform and Ultrahigh Raman-Signal Enhancing Factor. Huai-Hsien Wang1, Chih-Yi Liu2, Shr-Bin Wu3, Cheng-Yi Peng1, Nai-Wei Liu2,4, Juen-Kai Wang2,5 and Yuh-Lin Wang1,2; 1Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 4Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 5Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

R8.33
Growth and Characterization of Iron Silicide Nanowires on Si(110). Shengde Liang, Rafiqul Islam, Zhian He, David Smith and Peter Bennett; Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

R8.34
Molecular Squares: Ground State Electronic Structure and Conformational Properties. Donald E. Ellis1,2, Ljubomir Miljacic1, Bin Deng2, Ming Jiang5, Lev Sarkisov4 and Randall Snurr3; 1Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 2Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 3Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 4Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; 5Physics, Yantai University, Yantai, China.

R8.35
Nanoporous TiO2 Photoelectrodes on Patterned Substrate for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Seok-Soon Kim, Jun-Ho Yum, Yong-Young Noh, Jang Jo and Dong-Yu Kim; Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea.

R8.36
Preparation of NiMoP/SiO2 by Temperature-Programmed Reduction Procedure. Hee-Chul Woo1, So-Yeon Lee1 and S. Ted Oyama2; 1Division of Applied Chemical Engineering, Pukyong National University, Pusan, South Korea; 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.

R8.37
Surface Stress-Charge Coefficient of Nanoporous Platinum in Dilute Electrolytes - Double-Layer Processes versus Chemisorption. Raghavan Nadar Viswanath1, Dominik Kramer1 and Jorg Weissmuller1,2; 1Institut fuer Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; 2Technische Physik, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany.

R8.38
An Analysis of the Structure of Lead Hydroxyvanadinite. Donald E. Ellis1, Joice Terra2, Jean Guillaume Eon3, Carlos Bauer Boechat4 and Alexandre Malta Rossi2; 1Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 2Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 3Instituto de Quimica, Univ. Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 4Instituto de Quimica, Univ. Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil.

R8.39
Effect of Surface Area of Carbon Source on the Carbothermal Reduction for ZnO Nanofabrication. Young Soo Lim1, Seung-Tae Hong1, Jonggeol Kim1 and Jung Min Ko2; 1Corporate R&D, LG Chem/Research Park, Daejeon, South Korea; 2Information & Electronic Materials R&D, LG Chem/Research Park, Daejeon, South Korea.

R8.40
Novel Synthesis of Hierarchical Porous Carbon Supports and Their Application to Highly Efficient Electrode Materials for Fuel Cell. Jong-Sung Yu, Geun Seok Chai and Suk Bon Yoon; Chemistry, Hannam University, Daejeon, South Korea.

R8.41
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

R8.42
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

R8.43
Optoelectronic Characteristics of Close-Packed HgTe Nanoparticles in the Infrared Range. Hyunsuk Kim1, Kyoungah Cho1, Byungjun Park1, Jin-Hyoung Kim1, Jun Woo Lee1, Sangsig Kim1, Taeyong Noh2 and Eunjoo Jang2; 1Electrical Engineering, Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea; 2Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, South Korea.

R8.44
Transport Mechanism of Charge Carriers in 1-Thioglycerol-Capped CdTe Nanoparticles. Dong-Won Kim, Jin-Hyoung Kim, Kyoungah Cho, Hyunsuk Kim, Byungjun Park and Sangsig Kim; Electrical Engineering, Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea.

R8.45
Novel Hybrid Composite for UV-Shielding. Shanghua Li1, Muhammet Toprak1, Do Kyung Kim2,1 and Mamoun Muhammed1; 1Materials Science and Engineering, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; 2Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

R8.46
A Study of the Structure of CeO/Sub2 Nanoneedles and Nanorods. Natalia Bugayeva, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.

R8.47
Evaluation of POEA/PSS Layer-by-Layer Films for Electronic Tongue. Nadja Karolina Leonel Wiziack1, Leonardo G. Paterno2,1, Fabio H. Kanno1, Fernando Josepetti Fonseca1 and Luiz Henrique Capparelli Mattoso2; 1Dep. de Engenharia de Sistemas Eletronicos, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; 2Instrumentacao Agropecuaria, EMBRAPA, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil.

R8.48
Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization of Carbon Electrode-Immobilized Glucose Oxidase with Gold Nanopaticle Mediator. Ying-Ying Horng1, Li-Chyong Chen2, Kuei-Hsien Chen2,3 and Chia-Chun Chen1,3; 1Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

R8.49
Excellent Antireflection Properties of Controllable GaAs Nanotip Arrays. Fu-Kuo Chiang1, Hung-Chun Lo2, Yi-Fan Hwang3, Chih-Hsien Hwang4, Li-Chiung Chen1 and Kuei-Hsien Chen5; 1Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan; 3Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; 4Institute of Optoelectronic Sciences, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan; 5Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

R8.50
Synthesis and Characterization of Sol-Gel Derived MgO Monoliths. Winny Dong1, Jeffrey S. Sakamoto2, Jesse Rivera1, Celia Tang1 and Elizabeth Yen2; 1Chemical and Materials Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, California; 2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

R8.51
Characteristics and Applications of Nanostructured Nitrides Synthesized by Vapor Phase Reactions. Gerald Ziegenbalg, Carsten Paetzold, Ute Singliar and Rico Berthold; Institute of Technical Chemistry, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany.

R8.52
A Widely Applicable Synthetic Approach of Multimetallic Oxides from Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials Made of Ordered Functionalized Polymeric Matrices and Inorganic Salts. F. Rullens1, A. Laschewsky2 and M. Devillers1; 1Chemistry, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; 2Fraunhofer Institut fuer Polymerforschung, Golm, Germany.

R8.53
Growth and Luminescence from Ga2O3 Nanowires and Nanoneedles. Emilio Nogales, Bianchi Mendez and Javier Piqueras; Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

R8.54
Optimized Silver Film over Nanosphere Surfaces for the Biowarfare Agent Detection Based on Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Xiaoyu Zhang and Richard P. Van Duyne; Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

R8.55
Behavior of Freezing and Melting of Methane in Microporous Material with Heterogeneous Surfaces of Rectilinear Groove. Yang Gon Seo1, Mark Biggs2, Alex Buts2 and Nigel Seaton2; 1Department of Chemical and Biological Enginnering, GyeongSang National University, Jinju, South Korea; 2Institute for Materials and Processes, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

R8.56
Optical and Electrical Switching Properties of Gadolinium - Gadolinium Hydride/Palladium Silver System. Heinz Schmitt1 and El Sayed Shalaan2; 1Technical Physics, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Saarland, Germany; 2Technical Physics, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Saarland, Germany.

R8.57
Nanowire Avalanche Photodiodes. Oliver Hayden1,2 and Ritesh Agarwal1; 1Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

R8.58
Morphology, Structure and Optical Properties of MOCVD Grown Nanowires of ZnxCd1-xSe Pseudo-Binary Alloys on Si and GaAs Substrate. Ching-man Ng, C. X. Shan and S. K. Hark; Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

R8.59
Binding of Water Molecules to Protozeolitic Nanoclusters. Subhendra D. Mahanti1, Hong Li1 and Thomas J Pinnavaia2; 1Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; 2Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

R8.60
Mechanistic Studies of the Formation of Alumina Sol-Gels by Multinuclear NMR. Sarah C. Chinn, April M. Sawvel, Theodore F. Baumann, Joe. H. Satcher and Robert S. Maxwell; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

R8.61
Study on Structure and Growth of Nano-Sized Silica Clusters. Xin Liu, Changgong Meng and Changhou Liu; Department of Chemistry, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.

R8.62
Silica Nanofibers Containing Transition Metal Oxides from Sol-Gel/Electrospinning Processes. Jeanne E. Panels and Yong L. Joo; Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

R8.63
Vacancy Supersaturation and Nanocrystalline Microstructural Evolution. Moneesh Upmanyu1 and Branden B. Kappes2; 1Engineering Division, Materials Science Program, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado; 2Materials Science Program, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.

R8.64
Novel Chemical Sensor Concept for Neutral Radical Detection in Gas Phase. Vladislav Vladimirovich Styrov1, Alexander Y. Kabansky2, Victor P. Grankin3, Stanislav Kh. Shigalugov4, Yury I. Tyurin5; 1Physics Department, Azov State Technical University, Mariupol, Ukraine; 2R&D Department, Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose California; 3Computer Simulation and Modeling, Azof State Technical University, Mariupol, Ukraine; 4Physics Department, Noril'sk Industrial Institute, Noril'sk, Russian Federation; 5Physics Department, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russian Federation.

SESSION R9/P6: Joint Session: Catalysis: In situ and Nano-Characterization
Chairs: Juergen Janek and Judith Yang
Thursday Morning, March 31, 2005
Room 3001 (Moscone West)

8:00 AM *R9.1/P6.1
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

8:30 AM *R9.2/P6.2
Understanding Growth Mechanisms and Kinetics of Gas Solid Interactions at Nanoscale Using Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope. Renu Sharma, Center for Solid State Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

9:00 AM R9.3/P6.3
Understanding Catalysis Through Aberration-Corrected STEM and Theory. Albina Y Borisevich1, Andrew R. Lupini1, Sanwu Wang2, Sergey N. Rashkeev1,2, Sokrates T. Pantelides2,1, Karl Sohlberg3 and Stephen J. Pennycook1,2; 1Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; 3Department of Chemistry, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

9:15 AM R9.4/P6.4
The Effect of Substrates/Ligands on Metal Nanocatalysts Investigated by Quantitative Z-Contrast Imaging and High Resolution Electron Microscopy. Huiping Xu1, Noel T. Nuhfer2, Laurent Menard3, Anatoly Frenkel4, Ralph Nuzzo3, Duane Johnson3 and Judith C. Yang1; 1Dept of Mat Sci & Engr, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 2Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 3University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 4Yeshiva University, New York, New York.

9:30 AM R9.5/P6.5
Surface Defects on TiO2(110): From Atomic and Electronic Structure to Catalytic Activity. Ken Taesung Park1,2, Minghu Pan2, Sergei Kalinin3, Vincent Meunier4, William Shelton4, Arthur P. Baddorf3 and E. Ward Plummer2,3; 1Physics, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; 2Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; 3Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 4Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

9:45 AM BREAK

10:15 AM *R9.6/P6.6
Seeing Catalysts at Work at High Temperatures and High Pressures, Using STM. J. W. M. Frenken1, B. L. M. Hendriksen1, M. D. Ackermann1, S. Bobaru1, O. Robach2, I. Popa2, H. Kim2 and S. Ferrer2; 1Kamerlingh Onnese Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; 2European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France.

10:45 AM R9.7/P6.7
Heterogeneous Photocatalysis of Oxidation of Acetaldehyde Using Titania Nanotubes. Huifang Xu1, Ganesh Vanamu2, Ziming Nie1, Jonathan Phillips3 and Yifeng Wang4; 1Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; 2Chemical and nuclear, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 3Engineering Science and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, New Mexico; 4Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

11:00 AM R9.8/P6.8
Ordered Arrays of Metal Nanoclusters on Oxide Surfaces. Guido Mariotto1, Nikolai Berdunov1, Shane Murphy1, Kannan Balakrishnan1, Yakob M. Mukovskii2 and Igor V. Shvets1; 1Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland; 2MISIS, Moscow, Russian Federation.

11:15 AM R9.9/P6.9
In situ Observation of Electrode Reactions on Solid Electrolytes Probed by Microspectroscopy. Bjoern Luerssen, Holger Fischer and Juergen Janek; Physical Chemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.

11:30 AM R9.10/P6.10
In-situ Monitoring of Oxygen Spillover Ions on Pt/YSZ Electrodes. Juergen Janek1, Bjoern Luerssen1, Holger Fischer1 and Sebastian Guenther2; 1Physical Chemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany; 2Department Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany.

SESSION R10: Synthesis of Nanoporous Materials I
Chair: Witold Lojkowski
Thursday Afternoon, March 31, 2005
Room 3001 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *R10.1
Carbide-Derived Carbon with Tunable Pore Size. Yury Gogotsi, Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2:00 PM R10.2
Nanoporous Carbide-Derived Carbon for Potential Use in Water Purification and Gas Separation. Elizabeth N. Hoffman, Gleb Yushin, Michel W. Barsoum and Yury Gogotsi; Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2:15 PM R10.3
Metal Incorporation into Nanoporous Carbon. Simon John Henley, J. D. Carey and S. R. P. Silva; Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

2:30 PM R10.4
Nanoporous and Nanostructured Materials Made Out of Clusters for Environmental Applications. Jiji Antony1, You Qiang1, Amit Sharma1, Nutting Joe1, Chongmin Wang2, Donald R. Baer2, David E. McCready2, Mark Engelhard2, James T. Nurmi3 and Paul Tratnyek3; 1Physics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho; 2EMSL, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington; 3Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon.

2:45 PM R10.5
Electrodeposition of Nanoscale Semiconductors and Metals in Ionic Liquids. Frank Endres, Technical University of Clausthal, Institute of Metallurgy, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:15 PM *R10.6
Mesoporous Nanostructured Architectures for High Performance in Rate-Critical Applications. Debra R. Rolison1, Jeffrey W. Long1, Michael S. Doescher1, Jeremy J. Pietron1, Michael S. Logan1, Everett E. Carpenter2, Christopher P. Rhodes1 and Rhonda M. Stroud2; 1Surface Chemistry Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia; 2Materials and Sensors Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

3:45 PM R10.7
Palladium-Polyimide Nanocomposite Membranes: Synthesis and Characterization of Reflective and Electrically Conductive Surface Metallized Films. Luke M. Davis1, B. L. French3, David Wallace Thompson1 and Robin E. Southward2; 1Chemistry, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia; 2Advanced Materials and Processing Branch, NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia; 3Applied Science, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

4:00 PM R10.8
Prepatterning of Substrates via Diblock Copolymer Lithography. Danilo Zschech1, Dong Ha Kim2, Alexey P. Milenin1, Martin Steinhart1 and Ulrich Goesele1; 1Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany; 2Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany.

4:15 PM R10.9
Direct Synthesis of Mesoporous Carbon and Palladium-Containing Mesoporous Carbon With Tunable Pore Size. Qingyuan Hu, Jiebin Pang, Zhiwang Wu and Yunfeng Lu; Chemical and biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

4:30 PM R10.10
Formation, Characterization, and Efficient Direct Nitridation of Unique ZrOx and HfOx Nanostructures and Their Composites with TiOx. James L. Gole1, Sharka M. Prokes2, John D. Stout1 and Orus J. Glembocki2; 1School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 2Naval Research Lab, Washington, District of Columbia.

4:45 PM R10.11
Atomic Layer Deposition of ZnO on Ultra-Low-Density Nanoporous Silica Aerogel Monoliths. S. O. Kucheyev1, J. Biener1, Y. M. Wang1, T. F. Baumann1, K. J. Wu1, T. van Buuren1, J. H. Satcher1, J. F. Poco1, A. V. Hamza1, J. W. Elam2 and M. J. Pellin2; 1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; 2Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois.

SESSION R11: Optical Properties and Photovoltaics
Chair: Dominik Kramer
Friday Morning, April 1, 2005
Room 2009 (Moscone West)

NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM R11.1
ZnO Nanowire Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. Jason B. Baxter and Eray S. Aydil; Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

8:15 AM R11.2
Unusual Optical Properties of Large Surface Area Nanoparticles - The First White-Light Nanophosphor. Jess Patrick Wilcoxon, Billie Abrams, Steven Thoma and Paula Provencio; 1126, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

8:30 AM R11.3
Photonic and Optoelectronic Properties of a Nanoporous Cadmium Telluride Based Metamaterial. David Smith1, Matthew L. Markham1, Jeremy J. Baumberg1, Xiaohong Li2, Tim Gabriel2, Iris Nandhakumar2 and George S. Attard2; 1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom; 2School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

8:45 AM R11.4
Luminescence of ZnO and ZrO2 Nanopowders as Function of Grain Size and Method of Preparation. Larisa Grigorieva2, Donats Millers2, Agnieszka Opalinska1, Roman Pielaszek1, Tomasz Strachowski1, Witold Lojkowski1, Dariusz Hreniak3 and Wieslaw Strek3; 1Institute for High Pressure Physics, Warsaw, Poland; 2Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia; 3Institute for Low Temperature and Structural Research, Polish Academy of Scienc, Wroclaw, Poland.

9:00 AM R11.5
Dye-Sensitization of Tin Dioxide via the Functionalization of Oxide Surfaces with Organotrialkynyltins. Thierry Toupance1, Bernard Jousseaume1, Mervyn de Borniol1, Hubert Cachet2 and Vincent Vivier2; 1Laboratory of Organic and Organometallic Chemistry LCOO UMR 5802, University of Bordeaux 1, Talence, France; 2Laboratoire des Interfaces et Systemes Electrochimiques, LISE UPR 15 CNRS, CNRS, Paris, France.

9:15 AM R11.6
Fluorescent Silica Nanotubes Prepared by the Sol-Gel Template Method and Their Application in Gene Delivery. Yi-Hsin Liu1, Yao-Chung Liu1, Chia-Hsuan Wu1, Chun-Chia Yeh1, Ming-Tsan Su3, Yi-Chun Wu4,5 and Chia-Chun Chen1,2; 1Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; 4Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 5Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

9:30 AM R11.7
Synthesis and Characterization of Tin Nanoclusters. Billie Lynn Abrams, Jess P. Wilcoxon, Steven G. Thoma and Paula Provencio; Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

9:45 AM BREAK

SESSION R12: Synthesis of Nanoporous Materials II
Chair: Frank Endres
Friday Morning, April 1, 2005
Room 2009 (Moscone West)

10:00 AM *R12.1
Porous and Nanoporous Semiconductors and Emerging Applications. Helmut Foell, Juergen Carstensen and Stefan Frey; Chair for General Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kaiserstr. 2, 24143 Kiel, Germany.

10:30 AM R12.2
Nanoporous Ceramic and Composite Membranes from Anodic Alumina. Dmitri Routkevitch, Oleg Polyakov and John Valdez; Synkera Technologies Inc., Longmont, Colorado.

10:45 AM R12.3
Curved Mesoporous Silica by Nano-Confinement. Yiying Wu1, Kirill Katsov2, Scott W. Sides3, Glenn H. Fredrickson3,4, Martin Moskovits1 and Galen D. Stucky1,4; 1Chemistry, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 2Materials Research Lab, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 3Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 4Materials, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

11:00 AM R12.4
Generation of Functional Mesoporous Thin Films of Binary Metal Oxides with Crystalline Pore Walls Using Novel Block Copolymer Templates and Characterization by Suitable Analytical Techniques. Bernd Smarsly1, Torsten Brezesinski1, Nicola Pinna1, Clement Sanchez2, David Grosso2, Cedric Boissiere2 and Heinz Amenitsch3; 1Colloid Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany; 2Laboratoire Chimie de la Matiere Condensee, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; 3Institute of Biophysics and X-ray Structure Research, Austrian Academy, Graz, Austria.

11:15 AM R12.5
Synthesis Conditions of Ordered Mesostructured Boron Nitride Prepared from Borazinic Precursors and CMK-3 Carbon Template.
P. Dibandjo, L. Bois, F. Chassagneux and P. Miele; Multimateriaux et Interfaces, UMR 5615, CNRS-Lyon I University, Villeurbanne, France.

11:30 AM R12.6
Atomic Layer Deposition for the Conformal Coating of Nanoporous Materials. Jeffrey W. Elam1, Guang Xiong2, Catherine Y. Han2, James W. Birrell2, Piotr W. Klamut2, Hau H. Wang2, John N. Hryn1, Michael J. Pellin2, John F. Poco3 and Joe H. Satcher3; 1Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois; 2Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois; 3Chemistry and Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

11:45 AM R12.7
Growth Characteristics of Self-Assembled Mesoporous Nanospheres of Platinum and Platinum-Ruthenium. Trevor L. Knutson, Kimberly A. Haglund and William H. Smyrl; Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.


Symposium Organizers

Song Wei Lu
PPG Industries, Inc.
Glass Technology Center
(Guys Run Rd.)
P.O. Box 11472
Pittsburgh, PA 15238-0472

Tel: 412-820-4979
Fax: 412-820-8515
slu@ppg.com

Horst Hahn
Technical University of Darmstadt
Institute of Materials Science
Petersenstr. 23, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany

Tel: 49-6151-16-6306
Fax: 49-6151-16-6335
horst.hahn@nano.tu-darmstadt.de

 Jörg Weissmüller
Research Center Karlsruhe
Institute of Nanotechnology
P.O. Box 3640
D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany

Tel: 49-7247-82-6381
Fax: 49-7247-82-6368
joerg.weissmueller@int.fzk.de

James L. Gole
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Physics
Rm. Howey-N106
Atlanta, GA 30332-0430

Tel: 404-894-4029
Fax: 404-894-9958
james.gole@physics.gatech.edu


 


 
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