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

这笔旅费赠款将为一批美国工程师和科学家提供部分资金，以参加将于2009年5月31日至6月2日在捷克共和国布拉格举行的NICOM 3会议。这是第三届建筑纳米技术国际研讨会。最近一次会议于2005年11月在西班牙毕尔巴鄂举行。这将是每隔几年举行的这一系列会议的第三次。对于在毕尔巴鄂举行的NICOM 2会议，NSF支持一些美国工程师和科学家出席，使他们能够接触到纳米技术在欧洲和世界其他地区建筑材料中的广泛应用。除了在该领域工作的众多工程师和科学家外，还有许多与混凝土相关行业的公司参加。一个不同的参与者群体已被提名为选择，在纳米技术的经验，在许多情况下，是相对新的研究这一领域，使他们能够特别受益于接触工程师和科学家谁是强烈参与当前的纳米技术的进步。

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.