This symposium provides a forum for discussions related to materials, processing, and devices based on colloidal and nanoparticle materials.

Related topics are:

• Novel and high-performance materials based on colloids and nanoparticles
• Nanocomposites
• Photonic materials
• Membranes, filters, and nanoparticle modified membranes
• Templates and self assembly
• Sensors
• Materials patterning
• Surface coatings and interfaces
• Quantum dots
• Biomedical devices based on colloids and nanoparticles
• Proteins as colloidal materials and templates
• Novel colloid and nanoparticle synthesis and formation

Invited speakers include: Simon Biggs (Univ. of Leeds, United Kingdom), Paul Braun (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Franck Caruso (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia), Lenore Dai (Texas Tech Univ.), Janet Elliott (Univ. of Alberta, Canada), Eric Furst (Univ. of Delaware), Sharon Glotzer (Univ. of Michigan), Taeghwan Hyeon (Seoul National Univ., Korea), Akihiko Kondo (Kobe Univ., Japan), Peter Kralchevsky (Univ. Sophia, Bulgaria), David Pine (New York Univ.), Bill Russel (Princeton Univ.), Mike Solomon (Univ. of Michigan), Pat Spicer (Proctor & Gamble), Tadao Sugimoto (Tohoku Univ., Japan), Alfons van Blaaderen (Utrecht Univ., The Netherlands), Orlin Velev (North Carolina State Univ.), Eric Weeks (Emory Univ.), Dave Weitz (Harvard Univ.), Pierre Wiltzius (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ryoichi Yamamoto (Kyoto Univ., Japan), and Chip Zukoski (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

Norman Wagner
University of Delaware
Center for Molecular & Engineering Thermodynamics
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
150 Academy St.
Newark, DE 19716
Tel 302-831-8079
Fax 302-831-1048
wagner@che.udel.edu

Gerald G. Fuller
Stanford University
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Keck 183, Stanford
CA 94305-5025
Tel 650-723-9243
Fax 650-725-7294
ggf@stanford.edu

Jennifer Lewis
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
1304 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel 217-244-4973
Fax 217-333-2736
jalewis@uiuc.edu

Ko Higashitani
Kyoto University-Katsura
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Nishikyo-ku
Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
Tel 81-75-383-2662
Fax 81-75-383-2652
k_higa@cheme.kyoto-u.ac.jp