Glenn G. Amatucci, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Presentation Title: Nanocomposites: Opening The Door to New Concepts in Energy Storage Glenn G. Amatucci received his Bachelor’s (’92), and Doctoral (’95) degrees from Rutgers University. From 1991-2003 his research was focused on the study of lithium based electroactive materials and non-aqueous energy storage devices in collaboration with or as an employee of Bellcore/Telcordia Technologies’ Energy Storage Research Group located in Red Bank, New Jersey. Glenn was the Director of Energy Storage Research at Telcordia from 1998-2003. He joined Rutgers University and is currently a Research Professor within the Materials Science and Engineering Department. Glenn has authored or co-authored over 60 refereed papers with over 1900 citations, 2 book chapters, and has been granted 19 U.S. patents one of which resulting in an R&D Magazine top 100 technologies for 2002. His current research focus is on the enabling of new energy storage and chemistries and devices through the use of novel nanocomposite electroactive materials to address the extremes of the power/energy spectrum. His ESRG laboratories perform basic electroactive nanomaterial research to proof of concept prototype device fabrication in a specialized laboratory facility located at the Technology Center of New Jersey. Faculty and staff within his group also have active programs in thermoelectrics and photovoltaics.
	Jason B. Baxter, Drexel University Presentation Title: ZnO Nanowire Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Jason B. Baxter is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Drexel University, where he began in Fall 2007. His research focuses on development of nanostructured semiconductors for renewable energy applications. Specifically, his group investigates electron transport and recombination in dye sensitized solar cells to relate solar cell performance to semiconductor morphology and properties. Additionally, his group studies the growth of ZnO nanowires by chemical bath deposition with particular attention to describing growth mechanisms and designing novel reactors for enhanced control of nanowire morphology and optoelectronic properties. Before beginning at Drexel, Baxter earned a BS from the University of Delaware in 2000 and a PhD from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2005, both in chemical engineering. Funded by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, he worked with Prof. Eray Aydil at UCSB on growing ZnO nanowires by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and by chemical bath deposition, on characterization of nanowire properties, and on using the nanowires in a novel dye sensitized solar cell design. Baxter then accepted an ACS PRF Alternative Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate interfacial electron transfer and electron transport in semiconductor nanomaterials with Prof. Charles Schmuttenmaer in the chemistry department at Yale University. This work employed time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy to measure transient far-infrared photoconductivity for photovoltaic and photocatalytic applications.
	Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presentation Title: Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials, Devices, and Their Potential Applications Gang Chen is the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor in the department of mechanical engineering at MIT. He received a B.S. and M.S. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China (1987) and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (1993). He has held positions at Duke University and UCLA and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (1994) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002). Some of Professor Chen's professional activities include: Chair of the ASME Nanotechnology Institute Advisory Board Co-Editor: Annual Review of Heat Transfer Associate Editor: ASME Journal of Heat Transfer Editor: Microscale Thermophysical Engineering Professor Chen's research interests include: micro- and nanoscale heat transfer and energy conversion with applications in thermoelectrics, photonics, and microelectronics; nano-mechanical devices and micro-electro-mechanical systems; radiation and electromagnetic metamaterials. His teaching interests are focused on heat transfer, thermodynamics, micro/nano transport and technology, and radiation. He has recently written a textbook on nanoscale energy transport and conversion.
	Jean-Jacques Greffet, Ecole Centrale Paris Presentation Title: Engineering Radiative Heat Transfer at Nanoscale using Surface Waves Jean-Jacques Greffet is an alumni of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. He obtained the agrégation de physique in 1982 and a master in solid state physics in 1983 from university Paris-Sud Orsay. He received a PhD also from university Paris-Sud Orsay in 1988 and the Habilitation in 1992. Jean-Jacques Greffet was appointed full professor at Ecole Centrale Paris in 1994 where he is currently head of the physics department. He is also the head of the Nanophotonics and Quantum Information division of the Nanoscience Center in Paris. Jean-Jacques Greffet started his scientific carreer working in scattering by gratings and rough surfaces and radiative properties of rough surfaces. He also made several contributons to propagation in complex media. Since 1991, he has made a number of contributions to near-field optics. In 1999, he started a new research theme on thermal radiation and radiative heat transfer at nanoscale. He is also involved in many research projects on plasmonics, optical antennas and emission of light assisted by surface waves. Professor Greffet has published over 100 papers in refereed journals.
	Christopher W. Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology Presentation Title: Design of a Stable, Low Cost, Nanostructured Aminopolymer-Silica Hybrid Materials for Post-Combustion CO2 Capture A native of Troy, Michigan, Professor Jones began his research on catalysis and materials while completing his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan. There he investigated the catalytic properties of transition metal carbide and nitride materials under the guidance of Levi T. Thompson. With an interest in catalyst design and synthesis, he moved to Pasadena, California and joined the group of Mark E. Davis at Caltech, where he studied catalytic molecular sieve materials while obtaining MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering. His work focused on the development of new protocols for the preparation of zeolitic materials with intracrystalline organic active sites instead of traditional active sites based on inorganic species. This work was described in Nature in 1998 and was recognized by Union Carbide when Dr. Jones was given an Innovation Recognition Award in 1999. Following his graduate studies, Dr. Jones stayed at Caltech but moved to the chemistry department where he studied metallocene chemistry and olefin polymerization catalysis under the guidance of John E. Bercaw and Mark E. Davis. He then moved to Atlanta, where he started as an Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech in August of 2000. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry since 2003. In 2005, he was promoted to Associate Professor and named the J. Carl & Sheila Pirkle Faculty Fellow in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. In 2008, he was promoted to Professor. At Georgia Tech, Dr. Jones leads a research group that works in the broad areas of materials, catalysis and adsorption. In particular, his group currently studies (i) the generation of a molecular-level understanding of supported organic and organometallic catalysts, (ii) the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals, and (iii) the engineering of materials for adsorption or membrane separations. Working at the interface of synthetic chemistry and chemical engineering, the Jones Group uses advanced organic, organometallic and inorganic synthetic methods to create new functional materials. Since joining Georgia Tech, Dr Jones has been recognized with a number of faculty awards for his research from NSF (CAREER Award), Oak Ridge Associated Universities (Ralph Powe Award), Sigma Xi (Young Faculty Award), DuPont (Young Professor Grant) and Shell (Faculty Career Initiation Award). In addition, Dr. Jones was recognized for teaching excellence and curriculum development (a new undergraduate elective course: Chemical Product Design, Engineering and Optimization) with the CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award at Georgia Tech. In 2008, he was named a Hesburgh Teaching Fellow at Georgia Tech.
	John Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University Presentation Title: A Tutorial in Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies John Kitchin completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware in 2004 under the advisement of Dr. Jingguang Chen and Dr. Mark Barteau. He received an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship and lived in Berlin, Germany for 1 ½ years studying alloy segregation with Karsten Reuter and Matthias Scheffler in the Theory Department at the Fritz Haber Institut. John began a tenure-track faculty position in the Chemical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. At CMU, Professor Kitchin’s research focuses on CO2 capture, adsorption behavior, and electrochemical energy conversions, and. He is coordinating a major research effort within the National Energy Technology Laboratory Institute for Advance Energy Solutions (NETL-IAES) in CO2 capture, sequestration and risk management that include 12 faculty members and 18 graduate students. Professor Kitchin also uses computational methods to study adsorbate-adsorbate interactions on transition metal surfaces, which is funded by DOE-BES. Finally, his research group is developing electrochemical energy conversion technologies including fuel cells, electrochemical gas separations and hybrid hydrogen generation/CO2 sorbent regeneration systems.
	Marine Laroche, Ecole Centrale Paris Presentation Title: Engineering Radiative Heat Transfer at Nanoscale using Surface Waves Marine Laroche received her bachelor and master degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris in 2002. She obtained her PhD on nanoscale heat transfer from Ecole Centrale Paris in 2005. Marine Laroche has studied heat conduction in silicon nanostructures using Boltzmann equation in Gang Chen group at MIT. She worked on radiative heat transfer at nanoscale and nanophotonics during her PhD thesis with Jean-Jacques Greffet and Rémi Carminati at Ecole Centrale Paris. During her post doc with Juan Jose Saenz at University of Madrid, she worked on optical properties of periodic arrays of nanoparticles. Since 2006 she has been an assistant professor at Ecole Centrale Paris where she is currently pursuing a research program on optical antennas and radiative heat transfer at nanoscale.
	Edward J. Maginn, University of Notre Dame Presentation Title: Carbon Dioxide Capture from Flue Gas Using Ionic Liquids: A Combined Molecular Modeling and Experimental Study Edward J. Maginn is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He received his B. S. in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1987 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. He also worked as an engineer for Procter and Gamble from 1987-1990. His research focuses on the development and application of molecular modeling techniques for understanding structure-property relationships in materials, including ionic liquids and inorganic ion exchange materials. He has over 80 refereed publications and two patents. He has consulted for and number of companies including Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Molecular Simulations Inc., Foster-Miller, Air Liquide and the BOC Group. He is the recipient of the Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award from the American Society for Engineering Education as well as the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. He has also received several teaching awards, including the BP Outstanding Teacher award for the Notre Dame College of Engineering, two John A. Kaneb Awards from the University of Notre Dame and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Student Chapter Outstanding Teaching Award.
	Eric Pop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champion Presentation Title: Electron-Phonon Interaction and Joule Heating in Nanostructures Prof. Eric Pop joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2007. His interests are in carbon nanotubes for electronic and thermal applications, power issues in nanoscale ICs, and novel non-volatile memory devices. Prior to UIUC, he spent sixteen months with Intel working on phase-change memory and high-k dielectrics for Flash memory. He also did post-doctoral work at Stanford on the electrical and thermal properties of carbon nanotubes (2005). He received his Ph.D. in EE from Stanford (2005), and holds M.S./B.S. degrees in EE and a B.S. in Physics from MIT (1999). He has been the recipient of the Darpa Young Faculty Award (YFA), the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, the SRC fellowship, and an SRC Best Paper award.
	Debra R. Rolison, Naval Research Laboratory Presentation Title: Architectural Design, 1D Walls, 3D Plumbing, and Interior Design en route to Scaleable 3D Multifunctional Nanoarchitectures for Energy Storage Debra Rolison received a B.S. in Chemistry from Florida Atlantic University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980 under the direction of Royce W. Murray. Rolison joined the Naval Research Laboratory as a research chemist in 1980 and currently heads the Advanced Electrochemical Materials section. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah. Her research at the NRL focuses on multifunctional nanoarchitectures, with emphasis on new nanostructured materials for catalytic chemistries, energy storage and conversion, biomolecular composites, porous magnets, and sensors. Dr. Rolison is a Fellow of the AAAS and AWIS. She co-authored Ultramicroelectrodes, the first text on this active area (1987), with M. Fleischmann, S. Pons, and P. Schmidt. She guest edited (with H.S. White) an issue of Langmuir devoted to “Electrochemistry of Nanostructured Materials” (February 1999), a Festschrift in honor of Royce Murray (with R.L. McCarley and R.M. Wightman) in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B (September 2001), and a volume of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids on nanoarchitectures (December 2004). Her Editorial Advisory Board service includes Analytical Chemistry, Langmuir, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, and inaugural board membership at Nano Letters, the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Annual Review in Analytical Chemistry. She was a member of the Board of Directors of SEAC (1996–2001) and served as Editor of SEAC Communications (1997–2002). She chaired the 2001 Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry, the 2003 International Symposium on Aerogels, and co-chaired the 12th-15th NSF Materials Chemistry Workshops (2004-2008). She was named the 2005 Distinguished Alumna of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science of Florida Atlantic University. Rolison has written over 160 refereed journal publications, book chapters, and reports, been awarded 18 U.S. patents (with 7 pending). She also writes and lectures widely on issues affecting women in science. In 2000, she proposed using Title IX, which prohibits discrimination in any educational “program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,” to evaluate academic Science & Engineering departments. Her strategy was echoed in the 2004 General Accountability Office report Women's Participation in the Sciences Has Increased, but Agencies Need to Do More to Ensure Compliance with Title IX, which recommended that the U.S. Congress direct the agencies that fund scientific research to “take actions to ensure compliance reviews of grantees are conducted as required by Title IX.”
	Emmanuel Rousseau Presentation Title: Engineering Radiative Heat Transfer at Nanoscale using Surface Waves Emmanuel Rousseau is an alumni of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. He obtained the agrégation de physique in 2002 and a master in particle physics in 2003 from university Paris-Sud Orsay. He received his PhD in physics also from university Paris-Sud Orsay in 2006. He joined the Jean-Jacques Greffet group in 2007 as a post-doc researcher. He is currently working on the measurement of heat transfer in the near-field regime.
	Timothy D. Sands, Purdue University Presentation Title: Metal/Semiconductor Superlattices as Thermoelectric Metamaterials for High-Temperature Direct Thermal Energy Conversion Tim Sands received his Ph.D. in Materials Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. Following nine years as a Member of Technical Staff and as a research group director with Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) in Red Bank, NJ, Sands joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. While at Berkeley, he chaired the Applied Science & Technology Graduate Group (1997-99), served as Fall MRS Meeting Co-chair (1994), and chaired the Electronic Materials Committee (EMC/TMS; 1995-97). In 2001, Sands was a Visiting Professor at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) and Faculty of Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. In 2002, he became the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, with a joint appointment in the Schools of Materials Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Sands has published over 230 papers and has been granted 13 patents in the areas of metal/semiconductor contacts, heteroepitaxy, thermoelectric materials, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials and devices, semiconductor nanostructures, laser processing and heterogeneous integration. He is co-inventor of the excimer laser lift-off process for separation of GaN from saphhire, a process that is widely used world-wide in the manufacture of high performance blue and green LEDs. His present research efforts are directed toward the development of novel nanocomposite materials for applications in solid-state lighting, direct conversion of heat to electrical power, and thermoelectric refrigeration. In November of 2006, Sands became the Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue’s Discovery Park (www.nano.purdue.edu).
	Aldo Steinfeld, ETH Zurich Presentation Title: In-situ formation and hydrolysis of Zn nanoparticles for H2 production via a 2-step solar thermochemical cycle Aldo Steinfeld is Full Professor at the Dept. of Mechanical and Process Engineering of ETH Zurich. He further leads the Solar Technology Laboratory of the Paul Scherrer Institute. He received his B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1989. Prior to joining PSI and ETH, he was Research Fellow at the Energy Research Center of the Weizmann Institute of Science. His research program is aimed at the advancement of the thermal, thermochemical, and electrochemical engineering sciences applied to the field of renewable energy technology. The research focus is in radiation heat transfer and high-temperature chemical reactor engineering, with applications in solar fuels production (e.g. hydrogen), fossil fuel decarbonization processes, CO2 mitigation technologies, and sustainable energy conversion and utilization. Prof. Steinfeld is the Editor of the ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering and has authored over 130 research articles in refereed scientific journals. http://www.pre.ethz.ch/
	Yun Wang, University of California, Irvine Presentation Title: Fundamental Modeling of Transport Processes in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Yun Wang obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in China (Peking University, Beijing) in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He then went to the Pennsylvania State University where he received his Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2006. Right after obtaining his PhD, Wang joined the MAE (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) faculty at the University of California, Irvine in the summer of 2006. Prior to arriving at UC Irvine, Wang conducted research at the Electrochemical Engine Center at the Pennsylvania State University, and at the State Key Laboratory for Turbulence Research in China. Wang's research interests include electrochemical energy systems, such as fuel cells and batteries, and internal combustion engines, specializing in multiphase multi-component transport, heat transfer, electrochemistry, microfluidics, parallel computations, and turbulent combustion.
	Zhong Lin (ZL) Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology Presentation Title: Nanogenerators for Self-Powered Nanotechnology Dr. Zhong Lin (ZL) Wang is a Regents' Professor, COE Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Nanostructure Characterization and Fabrication, at Georgia Tech. He has authored and co-authored four scientific reference and textbooks and over 520 peer reviewed journal articles, 55 review papers and book chapters, edited and co-edited 14 volumes of books on nanotechnology, and held 20 patents and provisional patents. Dr. Wang is the world’s top 25 most cited authors in nanotechnology from 1992-2002 (ISI, Science Watch). His entire publications have been cited for over 21,000 times. The H-index of his publications is 70. Dr. Wang discovered the nanobelt in 2001, which is considered to be a ground-breaking work. The paper on nanobelt was the second most cited paper in chemistry in 2001-2003 world-wide. His paper on piezoelectric nanosprings was one of the most cited papers in materials science in 2004 world-wide. His recent invention of world’s first nanogenerator will have profound impacts to implantable biosensors and molecular machines/robotics. In 1999, he and his colleagues discovered the world’s smallest balance, nanobalance, which was selected as the breakthrough in nanotechnology by the America Physical Society. He was elected to a fellow of American Physical Society in 2005, fellow of AAAS in 2006, has received the 2001 S.T. Li prize for Outstanding Contribution in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the 2000 and 2005 Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Research Author Awards, Sigma Xi 2005 sustain research awards, Sigma Xi 1998 and 2002 best paper awards, and the 1999 Burton Medal from Microscopy Society of America. Details can be found at: http://www.nanoscience.gatech.edu/zlwang.
	Yiying Wu, Ohio State University Presentation Title: Nanostructured Materials for Advanced Energy Conversion and Storage Yiying Wu received his B.S. in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1998, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley with Professor Peidong Yang in 2003. He then did his postdoctoral research with Professor Galen D. Stucky at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and joined the chemistry faculty at The Ohio State University in the summer of 2005. His current research focuses on developing nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage.