Workshop on Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry

莱斯大学的Vicki Colvin教授由NSF化学部资助，与UCLA的石楠Maynard教授和哥伦比亚大学的Colin Nuckolls教授共同主持NSF高分子，超分子和纳米化学研讨会。研讨会将于2010年6月14日至6月16日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行。 本次研讨会将邀请不同的科学家讨论化学家面临的挑战和机遇，这些挑战是在传统分子之外的长度尺度上理解和利用化学。 该研讨会将寻求阐明这一领域的重大挑战，提请注意其对改变游戏规则的技术的承诺，提供有价值的教育基准，并确定了解此类复杂系统的表征和仪器需求。研讨会的讨论将通过一个网站和研讨会报告向科学界广泛传播。

Prof. Vicki Colvin of Rice University is funded by the NSF Chemistry Division to chair an NSF Workshop on Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry along with co-chairs, Prof. Heather Maynard of UCLA and Prof. Colin Nuckolls of Columbia University. The workshop will be held on June 14th through June 16th, 2010 in Arlington, VA. This workshop will engage a diverse group of scientists to discuss the challenges and opportunities for chemists facing the common challenge of understanding and exploiting chemistry at length scales beyond that relevant for conventional molecules. The workshop will seek to articulate the grand challenges in this area, draw attention towards its promise for game changing technologies, provide valuable educational benchmarks, and identify characterization and instrumentation needs for understanding such complex systems. The workshop discussions will be widely disseminated to the scientific community through a website and workshop report.