Conference: Third International Symposium on Nanotechnology in Construction; Prague, Czech Republic; May 31-June 2, 2009

这笔旅行补助金将为参加NICOM3会议的一组美国工程师和科学家提供部分资金，该会议将于2009年5月31日至6月2日在捷克共和国布拉格举行。这是第三届国际建筑纳米技术研讨会。最后一次会议于2005年11月在西班牙毕尔巴鄂举行。这将是该系列会议的第三次会议，每隔几年举行一次。在毕尔巴鄂举行的NICOM2会议上，NSF支持了一些美国工程师和科学家的出席，使他们能够接触到纳米技术在建筑材料中的广泛应用，这些应用正在欧洲和世界其他地方进行。除了众多在该领域工作的工程师和科学家外，还有许多混凝土相关行业的公司也出席了会议。有一组不同的参与者被提名参加评选，他们在纳米技术方面有经验，而且在许多情况下，他们对这一研究领域相对较新，因此他们可以特别受益于接触那些积极参与纳米技术当前进展的工程师和科学家。

This travel grant is to provide partial funding for a group of US engineers and scientists attend the NICOM3 conference to be held in Prague, Czech Republic on May 31 - June 2, 2009. This is the 3rd International Symposium on Nanotechnology in Construction. The last of these conferences was held in Bilbao, Spain in November, 2005. This will be the third in this series of conferences, held every few years. For the NICOM2 conference in Bilbao, the NSF supported the attendance of a number of US engineers and scientists to permit them to gain exposure to the extensive applications of nanotechnology in construction materials being performed in Europe and the rest of the world. In addition to the attendance of numerous engineers and scientists working in the field, there are also numerous companies in concrete-related industries that are in attendance. A diverse group of participants has been nominated for selection that have experience in nanotechnology and, in many cases, are relatively new to this area of research, so that they can particularly benefit from exposure to engineers and scientists who are strongly involved in current advances in nanotechnology.