International Symposium on Clusters and Nanostructures

该奖项由数学和物理科学局的材料研究部和工程局的土木、机械和制造创新部提供资金。该奖项为将于2011年11月7日至10日在弗吉尼亚州里士满举行的“集群和纳米结构国际研讨会”提供参与者支持。研讨会将集中讨论集群和纳米结构在解决清洁和可持续能源、环境和健康方面的突出问题方面所发挥的作用，这是科学和社会面临的三个最重要的问题。可再生能源中的许多材料问题、能源技术的环境影响以及纳米颗粒对健康的益处和毒性问题相互交织。解决基本材料和应用材料问题都需要多学科的方法。里士满研讨会的目的是提供这样一个论坛，让来自物理、化学、材料科学和工程领域的研究人员分享他们的想法和结果，发现突出的问题，并发展新的合作。清洁和可持续能源将解决替代能源的生产、储存、转换和效率方面的挑战，并将涵盖太阳能、风能、生物、热电和氢能。环境问题将涉及空气和水的污染和保护、环境修复和碳氢化合物加工。健康方面的主题将包括治疗和诊断方法以及纳米颗粒对健康的危害。交叉主题，如反应，催化，电子，光学和磁性也将被涵盖。在一个单一的论坛中，这次研讨会将讨论能源、环境和健康方面的重要问题，以及它们相互交织的方式。研讨会没有平行会议，与会者和演讲者来自学术界、政府实验室和工业界，研讨会将营造一个互动的环境，让新想法成为焦点和追求。口头会议将包括特邀演讲以及从投稿摘要中挑选的热点话题。参与者还可以在两个海报会议中展示他们的研究。研究生、博士后研究员和少数民族将参加会议。将通过会议网站提供受邀的演讲，在研讨会上提交的论文将作为会议记录或在档案期刊上发表，以便广泛传播。

This award is made on funds from the Division of Materials Research in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate and the Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Division in the Engineering Directorate. This award provides participant support for the conference: 'International Symposium on Clusters and Nanostructures' to be held in Richmond, Virginia on the dates November 7-10, 2011. The symposium will focus on the roles clusters and nanostructures play in solving outstanding problems in clean and sustainable energy, environment, and health; three of the most important issues facing science and society. Many of the materials issues in renewable energies, environmental impacts of energy technologies as well as beneficial and toxicity issues of nanoparticles in health are intertwined. Addressing both fundamental and applied materials issues requires a multidisciplinary approach. The objective of the Richmond symposium is to provide such a forum by bringing researchers from physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering fields to share their ideas and results, identify outstanding problems, and develop new collaborations. Clean and sustainable energy will address challenges in production, storage, conversion, and efficiency of alternate energies and will cover solar, wind, bio, thermo-electric, and hydrogen. Environmental issues will deal with air- and water-pollution and conservation, environmental remediation and hydrocarbon processing. Topics in health will include therapeutic and diagnostic methods as well as health hazards attributed to nanoparticles. Cross-cutting topics such as reactions, catalysis, electronic, optical, and magnetic properties will also be covered. In a single forum, this symposium will address important issues in energy, environment, and health and the manner in which they are intertwined. With no parallel sessions and with participants and speakers from academia, government laboratories and industry, the symposium will foster an interacting environment where new ideas can be brought into focus and pursued. The oral sessions will include invited talks as well as hot-topics to be selected from contributed abstracts. Participants can also present their research in two poster sessions. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and minorities will participate in the meeting. Invited talks will be made available through the conference website and papers presented at the symposium will be published either as conference proceedings or in an archival journal for wide dissemination.