Nano-Technology Product-Realization Road Map Workshop; University of Maryland, College Park

马里兰大学将与各学术机构和产业界合作，组织一次研讨会，以确定实现纳米技术产品所需的基础研究。国家标准与技术研究所(NIST)也表示有兴趣参与这次研讨会的规划和举办。研讨会的结果将有助于制定纳米技术产品实现路线图，使社会各界能够弥合实验室中的纳米科学概念与可行的纳米技术产品之间的差距，以实现可持续和负担得起的商业。产品开发不仅需要新颖的纳米科学概念(这些概念正受到许多研究中心的广泛关注)，而且同样重要的是，需要支持学科和相关的基础设施。促进学科的例子包括纳米工程产品设计自动化所需的建模和模拟方法，大规模纳米制造过程所需的合成和制造方法的规模，以及纳米尺度表征所需的计量学。虽然这些学科为传统技术发展得很好，但纳米技术的独特需求只能通过根本性的新进展和新的基础设施来解决。参加研讨会的人员将包括机械、系统、工业、化学、材料和电气工程师，这些工程师涉及纳米技术的所有上述方面。最近的几个纳米技术研讨会确定了对基础广泛的普遍研究计划的迫切需要，这些计划旨在解决实现纳米工程产品所需的基础设施。所有这些讲习班的共识是，纳米科学的快速发展激发了将纳米工程产品推向市场的巨大兴趣，但使纳米产品概念取得成果所需的使能技术和相关基础设施严重缺乏。如果纳米技术产业要成为大规模的商业现实，建立在对材料行为和失效物理的清楚理解基础上的强大设计工具是必不可少的。在大批量制造过程中，质量、一致性和重复性也是如此。第三个关键的工程推动因素是纳米尺度计量，用于表征材料、工艺和产品。这三个助推器加在一起，将构成实现和维持负担得起的纳米技术商业所需的关键基础设施三足鼎立。这一拟议讲习班的学术价值在于将为这三个使能学科中的每一个学科的基础研究制定新的研究路线图。综合这些有利于纳米技术的路线图，以及将在拟议的研讨会上制定的由此产生的教育路线图，将产生更广泛的影响。讲习班定于2003年秋季晚些时候在华盛顿哥伦比亚特区举行的亚洲机械工程学院欧洲经委会会议之后举行。研讨会将在马里兰大学举行。有关纳米设计方法、纳米制造工艺和纳米计量学的会议将由学术、工业和政府合作者在这次研讨会上组织和促进，可能包括NIST。

University of Maryland, in partnership with various academic institutions and industry, will organize a workshop to identify the fundamental research needed for realizing nano-technology products. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has also expressed interest in participating in the planning and conduct of this workshop. The findings of this workshop will be useful for developing a Nano-technology Product Realization Road Map, which will enable the community to bridge the gap between nano- science concepts in the laboratory and viable nano-technology products for sustainable and affordable commerce. Product development requires not just novel nano-science concepts (which are receiving extensive attention across many research centers), but equally importantly, enabling disciplines and relevant infrastructure. Examples of enabling disciplines include modeling and simulation approaches needed for design automation of nano-engineered products, scaling of synthesis and fabrications methods needed for large-scale nano-manufacturing processes, and metrology needed for nano- scale characterization. While these disciplines are well developed for conventional technologies, the unique needs of nano-technology can only be addressed through fundamental new advances and new infrastructure. Workshop participants will include mechanical, systems, industrial, chemical, materials and electrical engineers involved in all of the above aspects of nano-technology. Several recent nano-technology workshops have identified the urgent need for broad-based pervasive research programs that address the infrastructure needed for nano-engineered product realization. The consensus in all of these workshops was that rapid developments in the nano-scale sciences has spurred significant interest in bringing nano- engineered products to the marketplace, but that the enabling technologies and relevant infrastructure needed to bring the nano-product concepts to fruition are sorely lacking. Robust design tools built on clear understanding of material behavior and failure physics are essential if the nano-technology industry is to become a large-scale commercial reality. So are quality, consistency, and reproducibility in high-volume manufacturing process. The third critical engineering enabler is nano-scale metrology for characterization of materials, processes, and products. Together, these three enablers will form the critical infrastructural tripod necessary to achieve and sustain affordable nano- technology commerce. The intellectual merit of this proposed workshop rests in the new research roadmap that will be developed for fundamental research in each of these three enabling disciplines. The broader impact will be realized from the integration of these roadmaps to benefit nano-technology, and the resulting educational roadmap that will be developed in the proposed workshop. The workshop is scheduled for late fall of 2003, after the ASME IMECE conference in Washington DC. The workshop will be hosted at the University of Maryland. Sessions on nano-scale design methodologies, nano-manufacturing processes, and nano-metrology will be organized and facilitated by academic, industrial and government collaborators in this workshop, potentially including NIST.